And I had thought it was some marketing stunt…

So yesterday I got an excited email from Virgin’s Velocity Rewards Program*. It enthusiastically read: Preston, surprise! You’ve turned gold!…

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Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!

Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…

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Aside – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X

I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for the Mac for several years now – in fact, when I originally started using…

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Merits of target based deduplication

It goes without a doubt that we have to get smarter about storage. While I’m probably somewhat excessive in my…

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Lessons I’ve recently learned…

When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…

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The 5 Golden Rules of Recovery

You might think, given that I wrote an article awhile ago about the Procedural Obligations of Backup Administrators that it…

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20 years…

I remember mentioning earlier this year that there are few events I remember in stunning detail. Tiananmen Square, the Challenger…

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Virtualisation as an exercise in MTBF

When IT people discuss Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), the most common focus is on disk drives. We all know…

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Maybe it’s just as well…

…that the folks over at OpenOffice have concentrated so much on mimicking interfaces rather than trying to come up with…

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Wait! Don’t apply that service pack!

Recently we’re seeing a lot of people upgrading to Windows 2008 SP2, without first checking to see that release notes…

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