Setting alarm bells ringing

As a consultant, you get attuned to (or as some would have it, “cynical”) certain key phrases and statements when…

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Pumping data

The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…

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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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Holiday Wrap-Up

The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…

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Who is your backup admin?

Who manages the backups at your site? I.e., who has primary duties for administering and maintaining the backup system? I’m…

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Microsoft, start your copiers

For the release of both Mac OS X Tiger (10.4 – 2005) and Max OS X Leopard (10.5 – 2007),…

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