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…
Category: General thoughts
Pumping data
The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…
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….
Good enough, or perfect?
There was an interesting discussion being held on Twitter a day or so ago – the question of designing systems…
Deleting with Reckless Abaddon
This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…
Sisyphus, the Storage King
This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“,…
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…
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…
Holiday Wrap-Up
The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…
IT Strategies
The worst mistake we can make in IT is to become so embedded in firefighting or triage activities that we…