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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NetWorker Server Disaster Recovery Options

What do you do in the event of a disaster, either across your environment, or within your backup environment? What…

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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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3 Simple Questions

In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…

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Data Protection Central is Here

The world is changing, and data protection is changing with it. (OK, that sounds like an ad for Veridian Dynamics,…

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The Perils of Tape

In the 90s, if you wanted to define a “disaster recovery” policy for your datacentre, part of that policy revolved…

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Cloud Snapshot Manager

Recently at Amazon re:Invent, DellEMC announced Cloud Snapshot Manager (CSM), the first iteration of an enterprise grade data protection control…

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