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…
Category: Best Practice
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…
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…
Build vs Buy
Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…
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…
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…
My cup runneth over
Introduction Note: I first wrote this in November 2016, but since this covers topics that comes up regularly with customers,…
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…
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…