Protecting Information Assets and IT Infrastructure in the Cloud

Last year, I was asked to co-write a book with Ravi Das on risks and data protection in the public…

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Thoughts on how to Protect PaaS

As an organisation becomes more mature in their dealings with cloud they recognise that certain cloud decisions (AWS vs Azure,…

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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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Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management

Introduction There’s a general rule appearing in IT these days. There’s exceptions to every rule of course, but as a…

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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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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2)

(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…

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Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 1)

I’m going to keep this one short and sweet. In Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier I go through a few…

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Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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Tales from the trenches – Tape

I’m back in a position where I’m having a lot of conversations with customers who are looking at infrastructure change.…

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NetWorker to the Cloud

Introduced alongside NetWorker 8.2 SP1 is integration with a new EMC product, CloudBoost. The purpose of CloudBoost is to allow a NetWorker…

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