The House That No-One Built

And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt On the…

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What’s Cloud DR?

Not every business can afford a fully functional disaster recovery location, particularly if it’s a smaller environment with a tighter…

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Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage?

Years ago, one of the most common terms I’d hear in IT was “vendor lock-in”. It was, to all intents…

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Arranging by policy

A week before easter, I was doing some Powerplate exercises, nothing I hadn’t done hundreds of times before, when stepping…

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Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too

I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…

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2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report

Introduction The NetWorker Usage Survey for 2017 ran from December 1, 2017 through to January 31, 2018. Regretfully, participation rates…

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Data Protection Central is Here

The world is changing, and data protection is changing with it. (OK, that sounds like an ad for Veridian Dynamics,…

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Basics: Planning A Recovery Service

Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…

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The Perils of Tape

In the 90s, if you wanted to define a “disaster recovery” policy for your datacentre, part of that policy revolved…

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The rise of the hyperconverged administrator

Hyperconverged is a hot topic in enterprise IT these days, and deservedly so. The normal approach to enterprise IT infrastructure…

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