Taming dragons

So, I was having a conversation with someone via Twitter yesterday that started with me getting on a high horse…

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Should POETS day be special?

You all know about POETS day, don’t you? It’s a great acronym: P-ss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday It’s a pretty…

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Time to move

After an 8+ hour outage on my domain this week, with no explanation from my hosting provider, I’ve finally had…

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Vendors without a message

There was another flurry of conversation this week about another IT convention with some booths featuring scantily clad girls to…

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5 more considerations for deduplication

Recently I wrote, “7 common problems with deduplication“. That covered some of the practicalities that you need to be aware…

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Preparedness is not wastefulness

This post has now moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup Blog, and can be read here. Related posts: What a…

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But where does the DPA fit in?

In yesterday’s post, I suggested that it was time for businesses to recognise and setup a new role – the…

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What don’t you backup?

I think this is a question that the average company wholly, inadequately, fails to understand. You see, when it’s asked, people…

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NetWorker Usage Survey for June 2011 Results

With apologies for the delays, I’m pleased to announce that the report following the NetWorker Usage Survey in June/July 2011…

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Basics – Jobkill goes interactive

In a previous post, I described how one could use jobquery and jobkill to terminate running scheduled clones in situations…

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