Is an IT department like an organism? If you were to work with that analogy, you might compare the network…
[Edit- 2015: I must get around to writing a refutation to the article below. Keeping it for historical purposes, but…
I’m in a training course for a disk-only backup product, and in the introductory material, there’s a distinct message: tape…
Those who regularly follow my blog know that I see cloud as a great unknown when it comes to data…
Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…
Virtualisation. It’s a fantastic blade to wield through a datacentre. Sweeping and scything, whole racks of equipment are reduced to…
This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…
How much time do your staff take to monitor backups? The answer should be: very little. Not because they don’t…
How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…
What’s the ravine? When we talk about data flow rates into a backup environment, it’s easy to focus on the…