A basic data lifecycle

I’m going to run a few posts about overall data management, and central to the notion of data management is…

Continue Reading →

Holiday Wrap-Up

The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…

Continue Reading →

IT Strategies

The worst mistake we can make in IT is to become so embedded in firefighting or triage activities that we…

Continue Reading →

Who is your backup admin?

Who manages the backups at your site? I.e., who has primary duties for administering and maintaining the backup system? I’m…

Continue Reading →

Is bare metal recovery dead?

It used to be 10 years ago that you couldn’t do anything in the backup space without having an answer…

Continue Reading →

Backup to Disk and Busy State Staging

Backup to disk has well and truly become entrenched as a core backup strategy in most companies. By “backup to…

Continue Reading →

Using backup and recovery systems to track data growth

There’s a lot of talk about tracking data growth by watching SAN and NAS usage, counting allocated storage by the…

Continue Reading →

appliances vs Appliances

We all have appliances, right? Teapots and toasters and microwaves and automatic coffee machines, etc. They’re all appliances. So are…

Continue Reading →

Why I work in backups

I’m not a storage geek – storage to me is a means to an end, almost irrelevant to the final…

Continue Reading →

The Half-Life of a Backup

Every backup you do has a half-life, which isn’t the retention period of the backup. Now, if you’re new to…

Continue Reading →