Assorted Musings (Episode 3)

The Parable of the Languages I was reminded this week of an Internet classic from the early 00s by Shelley…

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Unmanaged Data Hoarding is Deadly to your Business

I’ve seen a lot of talk lately of data hoarding. Data can bring us new insights, new business opportunities, and…

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Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM

Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…

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Basics: Planning A Recovery Service

Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…

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10 Things Still Wrong with Data Protection Attitudes

When I first started working with backup and recovery systems in 1996, one of the more frustrating statements I’d hear…

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Deleting with Reckless Abaddon

This is the fifth and final part of our four part series “Data Lifecycle Management”. (By slipping in an aside…

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Sisyphus, the Storage King

This is the third post in the four part series, “Data lifecycle management”. The series started with “A basic lifecycle“,…

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An Aside: Stub vs Process Archive

This is an adjunct post to the current series, “Data lifecycle management“, and is intended to provide a little more…

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The importance of being archived (and deleted)

This is part 2 in the series, “Data Lifecycle Management“. Penny-wise data lifecycle management refers to a situation where companies…

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A basic data lifecycle

I’m going to run a few posts about overall data management, and central to the notion of data management is…

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