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…
Category: General thoughts
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…
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,…
Meme Monday
Let’s start the week off by thinking of a few data protection topics through the awesome window of memes, shall…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hello, 2019
Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…