When do I invoke Cyber Recovery?

Introduction Here’s a question I get asked quite frequently: “If we have a vault, how will the vault team know…

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Bad Things Happen

Bad Things Happened at OVH If you work in infrastructure, you probably saw some reference in the last week to…

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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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What’s Cloud DR?

Not every business can afford a fully functional disaster recovery location, particularly if it’s a smaller environment with a tighter…

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3 Simple Questions

In late 2016, I wrote a post, Falling in love with the IRS. In that post, I provided a bit…

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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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The Perils of Tape

In the 90s, if you wanted to define a “disaster recovery” policy for your datacentre, part of that policy revolved…

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Healthy paranoia

Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…

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Counting the numbers

How many datacentres do you have across your organisation? It’s a simple enough question, but the answer is sometimes not…

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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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