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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.2

 Preston de Guise  October 3, 2019

It’s been a busy few weeks for Dell EMC on Data Protection product releases – you’d have thought the new…

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 Posted in: PowerProtect  Tagged: 19.2, upgrade
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Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important

 Preston de Guise  September 30, 2019  2 Comments on Basics: Why Deduplication Block Size is Important

Here’s a topic that comes up from time to time: block size in deduplication. (Note here I’m using the term…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Basics  Tagged: deduplication, deduplication ratio
PowerProtect DD9900

PowerProtect DD. Unleash the Beast

 Preston de Guise  September 26, 2019

This week, Dell EMC announced a new suite of products in the Data Domain product family: the PowerProtect DD systems….

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Two Things Apple Get Wrong Still With iOS

 Preston de Guise  September 21, 2019  1 Comment on Two Things Apple Get Wrong Still With iOS

I’m a two-phone person. I carry a phone for work, and my personal phone. Actually, both phones are mine because…

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 Posted in: General Technology, Recovery  Tagged: iOS, iPhone
Decision time

Basics: Handling a Failed Backup

 Preston de Guise  September 16, 2019

Ideally, our backups work all the time without an issue. That’s an ideal situation. Then again, in an ideal situation,…

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 Posted in: Basics, Best Practice  Tagged: failure
Beards & Clouds

Cloudy, with a chance of data-loss?

 Preston de Guise  September 9, 2019

How confident are you that the data you have in cloud is protected? That’s one of the questions I asked…

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 Posted in: Cloud  Tagged: backup and recovery, cloud, cloud native, CRaaS, DRaaS, FaaS, IaaS, PaaS, protection, SaaS, STaaS

The Changing Face of Computers On Screen

 Preston de Guise  August 18, 2019  1 Comment on The Changing Face of Computers On Screen

Note: I originally wrote this in 2012, on my ‘unsane.info’ blog. I’m winding that blog down, but wanted to preserve…

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 Posted in: General Technology  Tagged: film, hardware, Software, TV

PowerProtect Data Manager Quick Glance

 Preston de Guise  July 29, 2019

PowerProtect (the Data Manager software, and the storage platform) — the next generation data protection platform from Dell EMC, became…

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 Posted in: PowerProtect  Tagged: PowerProtect
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Ransomware News

 Preston de Guise  July 29, 2019  1 Comment on Ransomware News

I’ve been tracking news on ransomware for a while now, and there’s been a few events of late that warrant…

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 Posted in: Best Practice, Security  Tagged: ransomware

The Four Horsemen of the Appocalypse

 Preston de Guise  July 20, 2019

“And lo, as the skies darkened and the earth trembled, I saw them riding their pale steeds — The Four Horsemen…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Backup theory, General Technology, General thoughts  Tagged: legacy

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