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…

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Coming Soon: A book about recovery for busy people

In June I decided to start tallying how many meetings I do. In this, I should preface that I only…

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Solving Tech Debt

I’m going to suggest something controversial here: the real solution to tech debt comes from within, not from without. But…

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Data Hoarding is Probably Holding your Business Back

If you’ve been around in IT for a while, you’ll have undoubtedly heard of Data Gravity. To me it’s a…

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Outage vs Outrage

There’s only a minor difference between outage and outrage, at least from a spelling perspective. Just a single r. I…

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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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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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Good Ideas and Angular Friction

Introduction If an idea doesn’t get off the ground, does that automatically mean it was a bad idea? Well, no.…

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Unmanaged Data Hoarding is Deadly to your Business

I’ve seen a lot of talk lately of data hoarding. Data can bring us new insights, new business opportunities, and…

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Fundamental Decision Domains for Workload Migration

What do I mean by workload migration? We hear about workload migration all the time, particularly as businesses continue to…

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