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Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…
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Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…
I’ve been really looking forward to this demo video. When PPDM 19.3 was being worked on, I sat in a…
I really love adaptive backup processes – that is, NetWorker and Avamar’s functions around defining dynamic selections of resources to be…
As you might have noticed in other posts, I’m a big fan of using NVP (NetWorker Virtual Proxy – also…
NetWorker 9.2 has just been released. Now, normally I pride myself for having kicked the tyres on a new release…
It’s a rapidly changing trend – businesses increasingly want the various Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) running applications and essential services…
I want to try something different with this post. Rather than the usual post with screen shots and descriptions, I…
Hey, don’t forget, my new book is available. Jam packed with information about protecting across all types of RPOs and RTOs, as…
NetWorker 9 introduced a new, pure HTML5 web interface for the File Level Recovery interface for VBA, which works much…
A few days ago I had some spare time up my sleeve, and I decided to test out the Emergency…
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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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