Basics – Understanding NetWorker Dependency Tracking
Dependency tracking is an absolutely essential feature within a backup product. It’s there to ensure you can recover data through…
Category: Backup theory
Talking about Ransomware
The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…
Would you buy a dangerbase?
Databases. They’re expensive, aren’t they? What if I sold you a Dangerbase instead? What’s a dangerbase!? I’m glad you asked. A dangerbase…
What constitutes a successful backup?
Introduction A seemingly straight-forward question, what constitutes a successful backup may not engender the same response from everyone you ask. On the surface,…
What to do on world backup day
World backup day is approaching. (A few years ago now, someone came up with the idea of designating one day of the…
What Queen can teach us about long term retention
It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of Queen. They shaped my life – the only band to have even a…
The Rise of the New Risk
In 2008 I published “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy”. It dealt pretty much exclusively, as you…
Build vs Buy
Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…
Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
NetWorker 2016 Usage Survey
Folks, it’s that time of the year again! Each year I run a survey to gauge NetWorker usage patterns – how…