Check in – New Years Resolutions

In December last year I posted “7 new years backup resolutions for companies”. Since it’s the end of January 2012,…

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Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise

Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification…

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Dark Data

We’ve all heard the term Big Data – it’s something the vendors have been ramming down our throats with the same…

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Why backup theory is important

Obviously the NetWorker Blog gets a lot of referrals from search engines via people looking specifically for help on particular…

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7 New Years Backup Resolutions for Companies

I’d like to suggest that companies be prepared to make (and keep!) 7 new years resolutions when it comes to…

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The top ten for 2011

It’s that time of the year where I sit back for a moment and look at what articles have attracted…

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Trial podcast

For some time I’ve been debating whether to generate podcasts for the NetWorker blog. Rather than continue to vacillate, I’ve…

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Metrics you can depend on

When I discuss backup and recovery success metrics with customers, the question that keeps coming up is “what are desirable…

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Don’t eliminate the error

Long-term blog readers will know that I advocate a zero error policy within backup environments. This is elucidated in my…

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Ongoing trends with tape

When I first started in backup and recovery, my primary backup medium was DDS-1 tapes, distributed across probably 15 servers…

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