Disaster Movies: A Model for Data Protection
So, the other night, my husband and I finally got around to watching San Andreas, the 2015 movie featuring Dwayne…
The Perfect Cloud Environment is the Perfect Headache for Data Protection
It practically goes without saying that the smartest way to move workloads to a public cloud is to have them…
The 15 Minute Rule
I still remember a conversation I had with a customer circa 2001 when we were planning their updated backup environment….
Basics – Sizing NetWorker Indices
If you’re a longer term NetWorker user, you’re used to a particular number: 160. The NetWorker performance tuning and optimization…
The Last Gasp of Windows 2008
Hopefully it’s reasonably well known that Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 are almost end of service life. In case…
NetWorker Pools with Data Domain
As far as backup is concerned, I’m an old-timer these days. I’ve dealt with a plethora of tape formats: DDS…
Book Giveaway Competition (Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud)
Hi! So in May my latest book, “Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud” was released. Co-authored with…
Linear tape (not-so) Open?
Something I missed at the end of May: troubles in LTO-land. According to The Register, Fujifilm has unleashed some sueballs…
NetWorker Basics – How much did that backup deduplicate?
Sometimes, backups don’t deduplicate as you’d expect them to. Someone, somewhere, decided that spare 5TB on a server would be…
Giving Boost a Boost: Multi-Mounted Devices in NetWorker
Particularly if you’re using Data Domain Boost within your NetWorker environment, most of the time your storage nodes exist simply…