SNMP is Simply Not My Problem
When I first started in system administration, I asked a colleague who was talking about SNMP what the ETLA* stood…
Can you trust Azure?
So The Register has a story about how Microsoft is edging closer to delivering it’s cloud based system, Azure. It…
Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture
It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair…
Quibbles – Why can’t I rename clients in the GUI?
For what it’s worth, I believe that the continuing lack of support for renaming clients as a function within NMC,…
NetWorker and linuxvtl, Redux
Some time ago, I posted a blog entry titled Carry a Jukebox with you, if you’re using Linux, which referred…
And I had thought it was some marketing stunt…
So yesterday I got an excited email from Virgin’s Velocity Rewards Program*. It enthusiastically read: Preston, surprise! You’ve turned gold!…
Manually Staging? Don’t forget the Clone ID!
Something that continues to periodically come up is the need to remind people running manual staging to ensure they specify…
Aside – Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac OS X
I’ve been using Parallels Desktop for the Mac for several years now – in fact, when I originally started using…
Merits of target based deduplication
It goes without a doubt that we have to get smarter about storage. While I’m probably somewhat excessive in my…
Lessons I’ve recently learned…
When I was at University, a philosophy lecturer remarked rather sagely that University is the last place people can go…