Talking about Ransomware

The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…

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The Rise of the New Risk

In 2008 I published “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy”. It dealt pretty much exclusively, as you…

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Build vs Buy

Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…

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GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures

On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica…

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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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How many copies do I need?

So you’ve got your primary data stored on one array and it replicates to another array. How many backup copies do…

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Melbourne DPUG and VMware Data Protection

Recently a colleague and I initiated the Melbourne Data Protection User Group (DPUG). If you’re interested in joining and participating and…

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One target to rule them all

Introduction It’s true there are some data types that broadly aren’t suitable to sending to Data Domain – any more than they’re suitable for sending to…

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World backup day misses the point

It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of backup and recovery. So much so that a substantial part of the…

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The Data Protection Manifesto

In my last post for 2014, I want to touch briefly on a few rules I think everyone in our…

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