How indispensable is your company?

A wise man once said in a meeting: If you want to see how indispensable you are, stick your finger…

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Technology is not the solution

Earlier in the year, I wrote a post, “Technology is rarely the issue“. In that post, I said: As techos…

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Adherents to the Repeated Meme

How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…

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Did NetApp jump the shark?

If you’re not familiar with the term jumping the shark, you might want to read up on the history of…

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Partner is not a dirty word

I periodically see indignant tweets and comments by people that if you sell something to a client, then you’re at…

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First, backup everything

Martin Glassborow, aka @storagebod, and I had a bit of a discussion via Twitter, which came down to the following:…

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Technology is rarely the issue

One of the stories I sometimes hear from companies is that some technology X doesn’t work in their environment because…

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The 7 Challenges of Data Protection

It struck me recently while working on a report that there’s 7 distinct challenges in data protection, and that we…

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Setting alarm bells ringing

As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…

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37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”

The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…

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