Build vs Buy

Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…

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GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures

On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica…

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Ransomware is a fact of life

The NetWorker usage survey for 2016 has just finished. One of the questions I asked in this most recent survey was…

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Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier

Introduction There’s something slightly deceptive about the title for my blog post. Did you spot it? It’s: vs. It’s a common…

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What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks?

There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the…

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Why do I need eCDM?

Why do I need eCDM? Your first question to me might be what is eCDM? Well, that’s a fair point – it’s…

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Summer Fresh NetWorker 9.1

I know, I know, it’s winter up there in the Northern Hemisphere, but NetWorker 9.1 is landing and given I’m in Australia, that…

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NetWorker 2016 Usage Survey

Folks, it’s that time of the year again! Each year I run a survey to gauge NetWorker usage patterns – how…

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My cup runneth over

Introduction Note: I first wrote this in November 2016, but since this covers topics that comes up regularly with customers,…

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