Capacity planning – quickly or properly?

When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or…

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Pumping data

The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…

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First impressions: Data Domain Boost

When IDATA was beta testing NetWorker 7.6 SP1, my colleagues in New Zealand were responsible for testing the DD/Boost functionality.…

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Good enough, or perfect?

There was an interesting discussion being held on Twitter a day or so ago – the question of designing systems…

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Deleting with Reckless Abaddon

This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…

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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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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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