Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud

Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…

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Myspace Data Loss – Some Questions

While it’s been murmuring in the background, and something affected users have been well aware of for a while, over…

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Thoughts on how to Protect PaaS

As an organisation becomes more mature in their dealings with cloud they recognise that certain cloud decisions (AWS vs Azure,…

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Data Domain Virtual Edition Extends Multi-Cloud Support

When Data Domain OS 6.2 was released, one of the new features enabled for virtual edition (DDVE) was support for…

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Basics – The FARR Model

Public Cloud is one of those things that works great until it doesn’t. Now, there’s a lot of reasons why…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement

When it comes to extending to object storage for long term retention, you really can’t beat Data Domain. Cloud Tiering…

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Reflections on 2018

In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going…

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Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management

Introduction There’s a general rule appearing in IT these days. There’s exceptions to every rule of course, but as a…

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What’s Cloud DR?

Not every business can afford a fully functional disaster recovery location, particularly if it’s a smaller environment with a tighter…

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