Of Pandemics, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

“In these strange times…” “In these interesting times…” “In these very different times…” “As we come to grips with the…

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Recovering nsrd.info

Regular visitors will have noticed that nsrd.info has been down quite a lot over the last week. I’m pleased to…

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Where RIM went wrong

(Quick note: I posted this on my personal blog – insufficient coffees thus far this morning, and decided to repost…

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Nybbles for the end of the week

Needing a few interesting things to read at the end of the week? Here’s a few things I’ve found fascinating…

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Availability and Uptime

Over at Storagebod, Martin Glassborow currently has a short and insightful post, How do you measure availability? Martin’s point is…

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Uptime is an inappropriate metric

I’m going to start with a statement that may make some people angry. Some might suggest that I’m just goading…

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Aside – A valuable lesson in SLAs

I’ve recently discovered a site with a prosaic name of “DailyWTF” … obviously aimed at technical people, it frequently covers…

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