When planning for long term retention, look to the database model

(…though most businesses get Long Term Retention wrong even with databases) Introduction The information age is one that has a…

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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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Start with “Why?”

Introduction I admit, I’m riffing on Simon Sinek’s Start with Why? for the title of my blog post here, but…

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GDPR: Do your backups spark joy?

itnews Australia is reporting on a DLA Piper analysis of GDPR operations within Europe since it came into law in…

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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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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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Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier

Introduction There’s something slightly deceptive about the title for my blog post. Did you spot it? It’s: vs. It’s a common…

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