The Perils of Myopic Optimism

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Australian Bushfires show the Precarious State of Modern Infrastructure

Having grown up in rural regions, I’ve found myself glued to coverage of the bushfires raging throughout Australia at the…

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Cloud is a Product Pivot

Whoa! Everyone calls cloud a destination, what is Preston going on about here? I grew up in a farming town,…

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Meme Monday

Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…

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The Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse

“And lo, as the skies darkened and the earth trembled, I saw them riding their pale steeds — The Four Horsemen…

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I can’t stand world backup day

Another year rolls around, and I yet again find myself facing an onslaught of “world backup day” posts. So yet…

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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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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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Hello, 2019

Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…

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