The rise of the hyperconverged administrator

Hyperconverged is a hot topic in enterprise IT these days, and deservedly so. The normal approach to enterprise IT infrastructure…

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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,…

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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…

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NetWorker Usage Report for 2016

The NetWorker usage report for 2016 is now complete and available here. Per previous years surveys, the survey ran from December…

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Build vs Buy

Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…

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GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures

On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica…

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What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks?

There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the…

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My cup runneth over

Introduction Note: I first wrote this in November 2016, but since this covers topics that comes up regularly with customers,…

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Backing up to Recover: PSS, BBB and VBA

I’ve recently been doing some testing around Block Based Backups, and specifically recoveries from them. This has acted as an…

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Betting the company

Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery…

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