The 15 Minute Rule
I still remember a conversation I had with a customer circa 2001 when we were planning their updated backup environment….
Category: Backup theory
The Last Gasp of Windows 2008
Hopefully it’s reasonably well known that Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 are almost end of service life. In case…
NetWorker Pools with Data Domain
As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…
Book Giveaway Competition (Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud)
Hi! So in May my latest book, “Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud” was released. Co-authored with…
Linear tape (not-so) Open?
Something I missed at the end of May: troubles in LTO-land. According to The Register, Fujifilm has unleashed some sueballs…
Start with “Why?”
Introduction I admit, I’m riffing on Simon Sinek’s Start with Why? for the title of my blog post here, but…
Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks
Many years ago when I was still a Unix system administrator, some midrange systems manager got the bright idea to…
I can’t stand world backup day
Another year rolls around, and I yet again find myself facing an onslaught of “world backup day” posts. So yet…
Thoughts on how to Protect PaaS
As an organisation becomes more mature in their dealings with cloud they recognise that certain cloud decisions (AWS vs Azure,…
Hello, 2019
Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…