NetWorker Usage Report for 2016

The NetWorker usage report for 2016 is now complete and available here. Per previous years surveys, the survey ran from December…

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Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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Data isn’t data isn’t data

An integral part of effective data protection is data awareness. You can’t adequately protect what you don’t know about, but…

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Of accidental architectures

  EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…

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Rage against the ravine

What’s the ravine? When we talk about data flow rates into a backup environment, it’s easy to focus on the…

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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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Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes

Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…

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