Sisyphus, the Storage King

This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“,…

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An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive

This is an adjunct post to the current series, “Data lifecycle management“, and is intended to provide a little more…

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The importance of being archived (and deleted)

This is part 2 in the series, “Data Lifecycle Management“. Penny-wise data lifecycle management refers to a situation where companies…

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A basic data lifecycle

I’m going to run a few posts about overall data management, and central to the notion of data management is…

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Holiday Wrap-Up

The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…

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IT Strategies

The worst mistake we can make in IT is to become so embedded in firefighting or triage activities that we…

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A tale of 4 vendors

This is my blog entry about the SNIA blogfest on 4 November that I attended, but it’s not what I…

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Telling facts

I joined Twitter about 6 months ago, having resisted it for some time. My only regret now is that I…

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7 rules for system administrators

Introduction When I entered the work force, for the first few months I trained as a MIMS consultant, but was…

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Virtualisation and testing

Once upon a time, if you said to someone “do you have a test environment?” there was at least a…

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