Data Protection Memes

The concept of a meme has been around for quite a while, now. It was first introduced in 1976 by…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management

Introduction There’s a general rule appearing in IT these days. There’s exceptions to every rule of course, but as a…

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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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Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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ILP policies vs Backup Policies

This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…

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Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again

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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