28 Days Later – Managing the Challenges Posed by Long-Term Retention Backups

Long-term retention backups, if not managed correctly, can represent a bit of a horror situation for businesses — they can…

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Basics – Compliance Retention with PowerProtect Data Manager

PowerProtect Data Manager uses a concept called promotion backups to help you create long-term retention backups. A promotion backup is…

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7 Contentious Thoughts about Data Protection

Years ago, back in the days when TV shows would take months, if not years, to appear in Australia after…

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Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement

When it comes to extending to object storage for long term retention, you really can’t beat Data Domain. Cloud Tiering…

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Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Worried about vendor lock-in? What about being a data hostage?

Years ago, one of the most common terms I’d hear in IT was “vendor lock-in”. It was, to all intents…

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What Queen can teach us about long term retention

It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of Queen. They shaped my life – the only band to have even a…

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