Data Hoarding is Probably Holding your Business Back

If you’ve been around in IT for a while, you’ll have undoubtedly heard of Data Gravity. To me it’s a…

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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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Data protection lessons from a tomato

Data protection lessons from a tomato? Have I gone mad? Bear with me. If you’ve done any ITIL training, the…

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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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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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Basics – NetWorker Data Lifecycle

Within NetWorker, data (savesets) can go through several stages in its lifecycle. Here’s a simple overview of those stages: The…

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