Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability – 2nd Edition

Over the last year or so, I’ve been working on a project that’s very dear to me: creating an updated…

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Meme Monday

It’s that time again to explore common data protection themes through memes! This time, I’m looking at some animated GIFs.…

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Meme Monday

It’s that time again to explore data protection myths and details through the power of the meme! Since it seems…

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Meme Monday

OK, let’s look at common data protection challenges through the eyes of memes again! I’m a big fan of backup…

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Basics: Handling a Failed Backup

Ideally, our backups work all the time without an issue. That’s an ideal situation. Then again, in an ideal situation,…

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Ransomware News

I’ve been tracking news on ransomware for a while now, and there’s been a few events of late that warrant…

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The 15 Minute Rule

I still remember a conversation I had with a customer circa 2001 when we were planning their updated backup environment.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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