3 Simple Questions

In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…

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Data Protection Central is Here

The world is changing, and data protection is changing with it. (OK, that sounds like an ad for Veridian Dynamics,…

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Basics: Planning A Recovery Service

Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…

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Basics – What’s a virtual synthetic full?

When NetWorker and Data Domain are working together, some operations can be done as a virtual synthetic full. It sounds like…

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The Perils of Tape

In the 90s, if you wanted to define a “disaster recovery” policy for your datacentre, part of that policy revolved…

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Data Domain Management Centre

Data Domain Management Centre (DDMC) is a free virtual appliance available for customers with Data Domain to provide a web…

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2017 in Review

With just a few more days of 2017 left, I thought it opportune making the last post of the year…

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Basics – Prior Recovery Details

If you need to find out details about what has recently been recovered with a NetWorker server, there’s a few…

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Cloud Snapshot Manager

Recently at Amazon re:Invent, DellEMC announced Cloud Snapshot Manager (CSM), the first iteration of an enterprise grade data protection control…

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The rise of the hyperconverged administrator

Hyperconverged is a hot topic in enterprise IT these days, and deservedly so. The normal approach to enterprise IT infrastructure…

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