Obduracy vs UX
I was recently reminded that even great UX has an implacable foe that it cannot accommodate: the obdurate user. For…
Author: Preston de Guise
Assorted musings (Episode 1?)
Not enough to warrant a full blog article, but here are a few things that have caught my attention of…
Notes of the Past
The archaeologist paused briefly from the painstaking work of clearing debris from the dig to glance at the sun that…
The (backup at the) end of the road
There’s a simple truth that weaves its way through all of our lives: deferring a decision is in itself a…
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.17 was released at the end of July, and it’s time to have a look at all…
Aphantastic UX
The brain is a funny thing. Since we can’t see into each others brains (well, without the help of MRIs,…
In case of emergency
The number of words that will be written about the CrowdStrike incident in the coming weeks and months will undoubtedly…
PostgreSQL Backups with Pre-Scripts
I’ve been wanting to play around more with pre-scripting in PowerProtect Data Manager. The proof-of-concept style example I gave last…
Adventures in Solar
In my first job at BHP Information Technology in Newcastle — back in the 1990s, there was a running joke…
By the Power of Process
If you’ve read any of my data protection books, even the most recent one, you’ll probably notice that I’m a…