37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”

The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…

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Capacity planning – quickly or properly?

When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or…

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Smoothing Fulls

A common convention in organisations is that full backups are run on the weekend – regardless of whether that’s every…

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Deduplication and space management

Deduplication can create fantastic space saving opportunities within an environment, but it does also create the need for a much…

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What is a backup system?

One of the core concepts I try to drive home in my book is that you don’t get a backup…

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Good enough, or perfect?

There was an interesting discussion being held on Twitter a day or so ago – the question of designing systems…

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Deleting with Reckless Abaddon

This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…

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Sisyphus, the Storage King

This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“,…

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An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive

This is an adjunct post to the current series, “Data lifecycle management“, and is intended to provide a little more…

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The importance of being archived (and deleted)

This is part 2 in the series, “Data Lifecycle Management“. Penny-wise data lifecycle management refers to a situation where companies…

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