Know your environment

Whenever I conduct training, I tell a story about a disaster recovery test that I ran for a customer in…

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Microsoft, start your copiers

For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…

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Error lifecycle management

In previous articles I’ve discussed the need for zero error policies. This was covered first in What is a Zero…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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10 reasons why tape is still important (part 2)

In the previous article, I covered the first five of ten reasons why tape is still important. Now, let’s consider…

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10 reasons why tape is still important (part 1)

Various companies will spin you their “tape is dead” story, and I’m the first to admit that the use pattern…

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There is no magic bullet

The always astute Martin Glassborow has an article on his blog titled “This Changes Everything … Honest!” In it, Martin…

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It’s a bit like fishy custard

In the debut episode of Doctor Who for Matt Smith (“The Eleventh Hour”), the Doctor, having only just regenerated is…

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What a day!

This morning we went to the funeral of our best friends’ father. It was, as funerals go, a lovely service…

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Book Drive

Every now and then I like to remind people of my book, Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate Insurance…

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