Backup is Insurance

As evidenced by the title of my book (Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy), I’m a firm…

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Killing me softly? I never liked the song either.

Over at The Backup Blog, Scott Waterhouse offers an alternate perspective on why the announcement by IBM of an in-lab…

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Pictorial representation of management happiness over OpEx cost savings

There is a profoundly important backup adage that should be front and centre in the mind of any backup administrator,…

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Backup is a production activity

I routinely check (via the handy WordPress dashboard) what searches lead people to my blog. Often it’s for content that…

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Media, CapEx and OpEx

A common mistake I often see made, particularly when planning new system implementations, is to try to calculate out media…

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