Data protection licensing
I’d like to take a little while to talk to you about licensing. I know it’s not normally considered an exciting subject (usually at…
What Queen can teach us about long term retention
It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of Queen. They shaped my life – the only band to have even a…
NetWorker Usage Report for 2016
The NetWorker usage report for 2016 is now complete and available here. Per previous years surveys, the survey ran from December…
The Rise of the New Risk
In 2008 I published “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy”. It dealt pretty much exclusively, as you…
Build vs Buy
Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…
GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures
On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica…
Ransomware is a fact of life
The NetWorker usage survey for 2016 has just finished. One of the questions I asked in this most recent survey was…
Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier
Introduction There’s something slightly deceptive about the title for my blog post. Did you spot it? It’s: vs. It’s a common…
What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks?
There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the…