What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.19

Data Manager 19.19 came out at the end of March, so I’m a little late writing about it: I’ve been on…

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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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Disaster Movies: A Model for Data Protection

So, the other night, my husband and I finally got around to watching San Andreas, the 2015 movie featuring Dwayne…

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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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NetWorker Server Disaster Recovery Options

What do you do in the event of a disaster, either across your environment, or within your backup environment? What…

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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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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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