Talking about Ransomware
The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…
Category: Architecture
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Build vs Buy
Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…
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…