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,…
Category: Architecture
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…
Smoothing Fulls
A common convention in organisations is that full backups are run on the weekend – regardless of whether that’s every…
Deduplication and space management
Deduplication can create fantastic space saving opportunities within an environment, but it does also create the need for a much…
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…
Good enough, or perfect?
There was an interesting discussion being held on Twitter a day or so ago – the question of designing systems…
Deleting with Reckless Abaddon
This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…
Sisyphus, the Storage King
This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“,…
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…
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…