Understanding Cyber Resilience
It used to be that topics like cyber resilience were dropped in the IT security bucket. And it’s true that…
Category: Data loss
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…
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…
Protecting your thoughts
There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…
3 Simple Questions
In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is wrong
In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…