Of Pandemics, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
“In these strange times…” “In these interesting times…” “In these very different times…” “As we come to grips with the…
Category: Architecture
Meme Monday
It’s that time again to explore data protection myths and details through the power of the meme! Since it seems…
Guess who else likes your backups in the Cloud?
Having just finished the excellent Dickinson series on Apple TV+, I keep getting one of Emily Dickinson’s most famous refrains…
The Perils of Myopic Optimism
“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…
Australian Bushfires show the Precarious State of Modern Infrastructure
Having grown up in rural regions, I’ve found myself glued to coverage of the bushfires raging throughout Australia at the…
Data Protection Memes
The concept of a meme has been around for quite a while, now. It was first introduced in 1976 by…
Basics – Architecture Matters
Here’s a typical sort of challenge: you’ve got a workload running in public cloud, but there’s a strong desire to…
Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important
Here’s a topic that comes up from time to time: block size in deduplication. (Note here I’m using the term…
The Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse
“And lo, as the skies darkened and the earth trembled, I saw them riding their pale steeds — The Four Horsemen…
The Perfect Cloud Environment is the Perfect Headache for Data Protection
It practically goes without saying that the smartest way to move workloads to a public cloud is to have them…