Contemplating Complexity

We’re often taught to reject complexity, and there’s a certain simple, elegant logic to that idea. Taken at face value,…

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One Year a Product Manager

2022 was a complex year for me. In some senses, being another pandemic year, it was remarkably similar to 2021…

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What’s new in NetWorker 19.8, Avamar 19.8?

NetWorker 19.8 and Avamar 19.8 were released in December, and in this post I’ll run through some of the new…

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Ready, Set, DM5500 is Go

When I was growing up (from a data protection perspective), backup was always a case of roll-your-own. If you were…

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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12

PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 is now out, and in this post I’ll take you through some of the new features…

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Basics – Of Asset Sources and Assets

If you’re new to PowerProtect Data Manager, you may notice it doesn’t use a term that most other data protection…

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Dynamic NAS Protection

NAS is one of those platforms that presents operational challenges for backup and recovery, simply because the operating systems are…

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DevOps and PowerProtect Data Manager

PowerProtect Data Manager is built around a focus on the REST API interface, which makes it ideal for DevOps. Being…

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John Proctor and Data Breaches

Another day, another data breach. Optus, Australia’s second biggest telecommunications company has suffered a potentially massive data breach, estimating that…

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The Tender Art of Process Re-Evaluation

Data protection is a topic commonly pushed out to tender. And I understand why: depending on how far forward into…

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