Looking Back on a Decade of Data Protection

Introduction It’s that time of the year when pundits usually (badly) predict what’s going to happen next year. It’s an…

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Cloud is a Product Pivot

Whoa! Everyone calls cloud a destination, what is Preston going on about here? I grew up in a farming town,…

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Meme Monday

Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…

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Basics – Using NetWorker to Protect S3 Bucket Data

Introduction In my previous post, I showed how to use Avamar to protect S3/Bucket data. This time around, I’m going…

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Basics – Using Avamar to Protect S3 Bucket Data

Technically you shouldn’t need to backup object stores such as Amazon S3. Object stores are designed with massive durability levels,…

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Learning! From! The! Yahoo! Groups! Dumpster! Fire!

I have to admit, whenever there’s a news article about Yahoo!, my first thought is “they still exist?” This week…

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Basics – Architecture Matters

Here’s a typical sort of challenge: you’ve got a workload running in public cloud, but there’s a strong desire to…

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Cloudy, with a chance of data-loss?

How confident are you that the data you have in cloud is protected? That’s one of the questions I asked…

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The Perfect Cloud Environment is the Perfect Headache for Data Protection

It practically goes without saying that the smartest way to move workloads to a public cloud is to have them…

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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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