Data Hoarding is Probably Holding your Business Back
If you’ve been around in IT for a while, you’ll have undoubtedly heard of Data Gravity. To me it’s a…
Outage vs Outrage
There’s only a minor difference between outage and outrage, at least from a spelling perspective. Just a single r. I…
Multi-Schedule Policies
PowerProtect Data Manager’s policy engine is designed to be an all-in-one method to planning your data protection copies. Let’s see…
Contemplating Complexity
We’re often taught to reject complexity, and there’s a certain simple, elegant logic to that idea. Taken at face value,…
One Year a Product Manager
2022 was a complex year for me. In some senses, being another pandemic year, it was remarkably similar to 2021…
What’s new in NetWorker 19.8, Avamar 19.8?
NetWorker 19.8 and Avamar 19.8 were released in December, and in this post I’ll run through some of the new…
Ready, Set, DM5500 is Go
When I was growing up (from a data protection perspective), backup was always a case of roll-your-own. If you were…
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 is now out, and in this post I’ll take you through some of the new features…
Basics – Of Asset Sources and Assets
If you’re new to PowerProtect Data Manager, you may notice it doesn’t use a term that most other data protection…
Dynamic NAS Protection
NAS is one of those platforms that presents operational challenges for backup and recovery, simply because the operating systems are…