Protecting your thoughts
There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…
Category: Best Practice
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…
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….
Racing Backups
On your marks I’m not all that interested in sport. I grew up in a sports-mad family and spent a…
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…
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…
3 Simple Questions
In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…
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,…
The Perils of Tape
In the 90s, if you wanted to define a “disaster recovery” policy for your datacentre, part of that policy revolved…
Cloud Snapshot Manager
Recently at Amazon re:Invent, DellEMC announced Cloud Snapshot Manager (CSM), the first iteration of an enterprise grade data protection control…