Staging Systems vs Backup Systems

Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…

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Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM

Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…

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Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best

I want to have a bit of a chat in this post about cheap. In particular, I want to get two…

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The House That No-One Built

And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt On the…

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Protecting your thoughts

There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…

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Sandpits in enterprise data protection

“Practice makes perfect” is not just a common saying, it says in three short words how humans learn to do things.…

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Racing Backups

On your marks I’m not all that interested in sport. I grew up in a sports-mad family and spent a…

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Your servers are replicated? Your backups should be, too

I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…

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2017 NetWorker Usage Survey Report

Introduction The NetWorker Usage Survey for 2017 ran from December 1, 2017 through to January 31, 2018. Regretfully, participation rates…

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