How do you solve Protective Dissonance?

There’s a term in psychology you may have heard of – cognitive dissonance. It refers to having contradictory beliefs, or…

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Why Data Classification in Backup is Pointless

You know that saying, “Data is the new oil”? If you work in IT and haven’t heard of it, I’d…

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Basics – Dynamic VMware Policies with NetWorker 18.2

I really love adaptive backup processes – that is, NetWorker and Avamar’s functions around defining dynamic selections of resources to be…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Hello, 2019

Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…

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The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated

It was not long after I started in IT that I got the most important advice of my career. It came from a…

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NetWorker 8.2 SP2 is here

While NetWorker 9 went DA at the end of September and is seeing healthy uptake around the world, NetWorker 8.2 is still…

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You’re not the boss of me

Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…

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