What’s missing with thin provisioning?

I’m stepping out of my normal NetWorker zone here to briefly discuss what I think is a fundamental flaw with…

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RIP Solaris

Having observed Oracle’s strategy now for a while since the acquisition of Sun, and many discussions with a quite a…

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There is no magic bullet

The always astute Martin Glassborow has an article on his blog titled “This Changes Everything … Honest!” In it, Martin…

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LTO-5 peeking at us from the end of the tunnel

The much long-anticipated wait for LTO-5 is now approaching fulfilment, with stories such as “Mass Production of Sony LTO-5 Media…

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What’s wrong with vendor training?

A recent discussion on Twitter about the high costs of training from NetApp got me thinking more about vendor training.…

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The perils of an Icarus support contract

Are your service level agreements and your backup software support contracts in alignment? A lot of companies will make the…

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NDAs don’t suck, but most of their uses do

I want to start this article by saying that I’m bound by NDAs all over the place. The company that…

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Who is your backup administrator, and who is your archive administrator?

My boss, on his blog, has raised a pertinent question – if it’s so important, according to some vendors, that…

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Oh come on, pull the other one

I want to spend a few minutes discussing something that drives me nuts. It’s something I see quite regularly on…

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Running Parallels Desktop for Mac in Headless Mode

(This is a local mirror posting of the guest blog piece I wrote for Parallels Consumer Tech Blog.) I made…

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