NetWorker 2017 Usage Survey

It seems like only a few weeks ago, 2017 was starting. But here we are again, and it’s time for…

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What’s new in NetWorker 9.2.1?

NetWorker 9.2.1 has just been released, and the engineering and product management teams have delivered a great collection of features,…

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Basics – NMC VMware Viewer

As you might have noticed in other posts, I’m a big fan of using NVP (NetWorker Virtual Proxy – also…

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What’s up, doc?

If you’re a long term NetWorker user, you might be forgiven for focusing on just a few specific aspects of…

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NetWorker Success Stories

Last month I ran a birthday giveaway competition – tell me a NetWorker success story, and go in the running…

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Hypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection

At VMworld, DellEMC announced a new backup technology for virtual machines called Hypervisor Direct, which represents a paradigm that I’d refer…

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Basics – device `X’ is marked as suspect

So I got myself into a bit of a kerfuffle today when I was doing some reboots in my home…

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Birthday give-away competition

Towards the end of September each year, I get to celebrate another solar peregrination, and this year I’m celebrating it…

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Basics – Understanding NetWorker Dependency Tracking

Dependency tracking is an absolutely essential feature within a backup product. It’s there to ensure you can recover data through…

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Talking about Ransomware

The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…

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