Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud
Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…
Data Protection Software 19.1
It’s that time! Data Protection Software 19.1 has been released. With new versions released simultaneously, that means there’s updates available…
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…
PowerProtect – Changing Data Protection
At Dell Technologies world, PowerProtect was announced. This is next generation data protection software and appliances; these aren’t just an…
vSphere Integration without Flash is Even Better
Introduction What with it being wrapped around easter and ANZAC day, I took last week off to get some writing…
Basics – Recovering SQL Databases as Files in Avamar
Introduction In an earlier post this week, I walked through the process of executing a file level restore of a…
Basics – Recovering Microsoft SQL Server Databases as Flat Files
You don’t always want to be able to recover a database backup as a live database – either overwriting an existing…
Backup Servers and Malicious Attacks
Many years ago when I was still a Unix system administrator, some midrange systems manager got the bright idea to…
I can’t stand world backup day
Another year rolls around, and I yet again find myself facing an onslaught of “world backup day” posts. So yet…
Basics – Determining PSS Saveset Dependencies
A question I’ve been asked a few times is “how do we use mminfo to determine dependencies between PSS savesets?”…