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