Talking about Ransomware

The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…

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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2)

(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…

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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1)

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. In Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier I go through a few…

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Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance

Dell EMC World is currently on in Las Vegas, and one of the most exciting announcements to come out of…

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Architecture Matters: When you dedupe

There was a time, comparatively not that long ago, when the biggest governing factor in LAN capacity for a datacentre was…

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What Queen can teach us about long term retention

It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of Queen. They shaped my life – the only band to have even a…

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NetWorker Usage Report for 2016

The NetWorker usage report for 2016 is now complete and available here. Per previous years surveys, the survey ran from December…

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The Rise of the New Risk

In 2008 I published “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy”. It dealt pretty much exclusively, as you…

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Build vs Buy

Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…

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GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures

On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica…

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