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My cup runneth over
How do you handle data protection storage capacity? How do you handle growth – regular or unexpected – in your data protection volumes? Is your business reactive or proactive to data protection...
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NetWorker 2016 Usage Survey
Folks, it’s that time of the year again! Each year I run a survey to gauge NetWorker usage patterns – how many clients you’ve got, what plugins you’re using, whether you’re using deduplication, and a...
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Summer Fresh NetWorker 9.1
I know, I know, it’s winter up there in the Northern Hemisphere, but NetWorker 9.1 is landing and given I’m in Australia, that makes NetWorker 9.1 a Summer Fresh release. (In fact, my local pub for the...
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Why do I need eCDM?
Why do I need eCDM? Your first question to me might be what is eCDM? Well, that’s a fair point – it’s a relatively new term, and it’s also an eTLA – an extended Three Letter Acronym. eCDM refers to...
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What can we learn from the MongoDB attacks?
There are currently a significant number of vulnerable MongoDB databases which are being attacked by ransomware attackers, and even though the attacks are ongoing, it’s worth taking a moment or two to...
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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 mistake to think that Cloud Boost and Cloud Tier compete with one another....
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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 Insurance Policy”, and expand it based on the changes that had...
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Ransomware is a fact of life
The NetWorker usage survey for 2016 has just finished. One of the questions I asked in this most recent survey was as follows: Has your business been struck by ransomware or other data destructive...
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GitLab’s RCA Misses Key Failures
On January 31, GitLab suffered a significant issue resulting in a data loss situation. In their own words, the replica of their production database was deleted, the production database was then...
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Build vs Buy
Converged, and even more so, hyperconverged computing, is all premised around the notion of build vs buy. Are you better off having your IT staff build your infrastructure from the ground up, managing...
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The Rise of the New Risk
In 2008 I published “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A corporate insurance policy”. It dealt pretty much exclusively, as you might imagine, with backup and recovery concepts. Other activities...
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NetWorker Usage Report for 2016
The NetWorker usage report for 2016 is now complete and available here. Per previous years surveys, the survey ran from December 1, 2016 through to January 1, 2017. There were some interesting...
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What Queen can teach us about long term retention
It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of Queen. They shaped my life – the only band to have even a remotely similar effect on me was ELO. (Yes, I’m an Electric Light Orchestra fan. Seriously, if you haven’t...
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Data protection licensing
I’d like to take a little while to talk to you about licensing. I know it’s not normally considered an exciting subject (usually at best people think of it as a necessary-evil subject), but I think...
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What to do on world backup day
World backup day is approaching. (A few years ago now, someone came up with the idea of designating one day of the year to recognise backups.) Funnily enough, I’m not a fan of world backup day, simply...
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NetWorker 9.1 FLR Web Interface
Hey, don’t forget, my new book is available. Jam packed with information about protecting across all types of RPOs and RTOs, as well as helping out on the procedural and governance side of things....
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Basics – Compatibility Guide
Regardless of whether you’re new to NetWorker or have been using it for a long time, if there’s any change happening within the overall computing environment of your business, there’s one thing you...
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NetWorker 9.1.1 gets out the door
I had a fairly full-on weekend so I missed this one – NetWorker 9.1.1 is now available. Being a minor release, this one is focused on general improvements and currency, as opposed to introducing a...
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Architecture Matters: When you dedupe
There was a time, comparatively not that long ago, when the biggest governing factor in LAN capacity for a datacentre was not the primary production workloads, but the mechanics of getting a full...
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Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance
Dell EMC World is currently on in Las Vegas, and one of the most exciting announcements to come out of the show (in my opinion) is the Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA). Hyperconverged is...
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