When planning for long term retention, look to the database model
(…though most businesses get Long Term Retention wrong even with databases) Introduction The information age is one that has a…
Category: Long Term Retention
28 Days Later – Managing the Challenges Posed by Long-Term Retention Backups
Long-term retention backups, if not managed correctly, can represent a bit of a horror situation for businesses — they can…
Start with “Why?”
Introduction I admit, I’m riffing on Simon Sinek’s Start with Why? for the title of my blog post here, but…
GDPR: Do your backups spark joy?
itnews Australia is reporting on a DLA Piper analysis of GDPR operations within Europe since it came into law in…
Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement
When it comes to extending to object storage for long term retention, you really can’t beat Data Domain. Cloud Tiering…
Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?
“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…
Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage?
Years ago, one of the most common terms I’d hear in IT was “vendor lock-in”. It was, to all intents…