What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.20
PowerProtect Data Manager 19.20 was released in June, and now that I’ve got a few minutes to spare I wanted…
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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.20 was released in June, and now that I’ve got a few minutes to spare I wanted…
PowerProtect Data Manager’s policy engine is designed to be an all-in-one method to planning your data protection copies. Let’s see…
I’m revisiting an old conversation here that I used to have quite a bit around tape, when companies had production…
Introduction In Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability, I talk quite a lot about what you need to understand and plan…
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
The caution about keeping all of ones eggs in the one basket is a fairly common one. It’s also a…
This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…
Over the weekend I wrote up a piece about how snapshots are not a valid replacement to enterprise backup. The…
Every now and then the topic arises over whether snapshots are backups. This is going through a resurgence at the…
In my opinion (and after all, this is my blog), there’s a fundamental misconception in the storage industry that backup…
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The Small One!
My latest book is The Busy IT Manager’s Guide to Data Recovery. This book is short and to the point, designed for people who are either responsible, or accountable for data recovery. You can buy from here.
The Big One!
The second edition of Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability is now available. It’s not just an update to existing content, there’s significant new information in this new edition. Buy here.
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