Understanding Cyber Resilience

It used to be that topics like cyber resilience were dropped in the IT security bucket. And it’s true that…

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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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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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Protecting your thoughts

There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…

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3 Simple Questions

In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…

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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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Ransomware is a fact of life

The NetWorker usage survey for 2016 has just finished. One of the questions I asked in this most recent survey was…

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How many copies do I need?

So you’ve got your primary data stored on one array and it replicates to another array. How many backup copies do…

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Metrics you can depend on

When I discuss backup and recovery success metrics with customers, the question that keeps coming up is “what are desirable…

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This is wrong

In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…

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