Continuous Data Protection for VMware Virtual Machines
Most businesses these days have a high level of virtualisation within their environments. I’m increasingly seeing environments that have achieved…
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…
Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management
Introduction There’s a general rule appearing in IT these days. There’s exceptions to every rule of course, but as a…
Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM
Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…
Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best
I want to have a bit of a chat in this post about cheap. In particular, I want to get two…
The House That No-One Built
And there she lullèd me asleep, And there I dreamed—Ah! woe betide!— The latest dream I ever dreamt On the…
Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1
Introduction When NetWorker 18.1 was released, it wasn’t just the core NetWorker environment that got an update – the application…
Basics – Getting started with BoostFS
Intro One of the things I’m keen to try in NetWorker 18.1 is the new Orchestrated Application Protection (OAP) feature…
Protecting your thoughts
There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken…
NetWorker 18.1 Breakthrough Logging
One of the things that I forgot to mention earlier that’s included in the NetWorker 18.1 release is a function…