Talking about Ransomware
The “Wannacry” Ransomware strike saw a particularly large number of systems infected and garnered a great deal of media attention. As…
Tag: data protection
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…
Build vs Buy
Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Data Protection Manifesto
In my last post for 2014, I want to touch briefly on a few rules I think everyone in our…