What does supported mean?
It’s easy to get confused on ‘supported’. That is, when EMC (or any other vendor) publishes a guide on say,…
Aside – Data Visualisation
Referenced from undrln, there’s an article over at Business Week about some of the more innovative techniques being used in…
Cloud Computing vs The Network Computer
Or, I can’t see the emperor’s new clothes… More than a decade ago, Sun bet its future on The Network…
Aside – District 9
Last night I was lucky enough to see District 9. As a big Science Fiction fan, I enjoy scifi that…
Basics – Labelling and Relabelling without Unmounting
Here’s a common scenario – you want to label a volume, or relabel a volume, and use it straight away….
Avoiding 2GB saveset chunks
Periodically a customer will report to me that a client is generating savesets in 2GB chunks. That is, they get…
Basics – Updates vs Upgrades
After 13+ years of using NetWorker, I still tend to interchangeably use the terms ‘upgrade’ and ‘update’ (or to be…
NetWorker 7.4.5 – Should you update?
Over the last 36 hours or so I’ve been doing a lot of tests of NetWorker 7.4.5, and overall I…
What’s wrong with the NMC installation process?
There is, in my opinion, an unpleasant security hole in the NMC installation/configuration process. The security hole is simple: it…
NetWorker 7.4.5
I received an automated alert from PowerLink overnight telling me that the release notes for NetWorker 7.4 had been updated….