Privacy? You don’t need any of that!

[Update] False positives – that’s the update following the investigation by Samsung and others. I’m personally very glad to hear…

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The 7 Challenges of Data Protection

It struck me recently while working on a report that there’s 7 distinct challenges in data protection, and that we…

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Basics – Cloning vs Staging

When people are just starting to get into NetWorker, a common situation is that they get confused about the difference…

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iTWire – Aussie storage growth above average: Gartner

There’s a report over at iTWire that has two highly pertinent details. (iTWire – Aussie storage growth above average: Gartner.)…

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Killing scheduled cloning operations

In a previous blog post, I discussed how much I liked the scheduled cloning operations introduced in NetWorker 7.6 SP1.…

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The virtue of persistence

I have to say, I’m really liking NetWorker’s ability to work with persistent binding on tape libraries now. If you’re…

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Survey – Virtual Backup Servers

I have to admit, I have great personal reservations towards virtualising backup servers. There’s a simple, fundamental reason for this:…

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Setting alarm bells ringing

As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…

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37 Signals and the “end of the IT department”

The folks over at 37 Signals published a little piece of what I would have to describe as crazy fiction,…

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Capacity planning – quickly or properly?

When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or…

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