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Where RIM went wrong
(Quick note: I posted this on my personal blog – insufficient coffees thus far this morning, and decided to repost here.) In case it’s not been immediately obvious to anyone, I’ve done some simple...
View ArticleQuestions about “big data”
I’ve been watching the “big data” discussion happen in a variety of circles, with a slightly cynical concern that this may be like Cloud 2.0 – another sad meme for technology that’s already been in use...
View ArticleClouds and bandaids
I’m going to stir the pot a bit here and suggest that a reasonable percentage of businesses considering cloud deployments have their heads in the sand over where their problems really lay. In short,...
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Data Awareness Distribution in the Enterprise
Continuing on my post relating to dark data last week, I want to spend a little more about data awareness classification and distribution within an enterprise environment. Dark data isn’t the end of...
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Aside – Indeterminate measurements and false hope
I’d like to suggest that we should specify that “percentage complete” estimates – be they progress bars or sliders or any other representation, visual or textual, need a defined unit of measurement to...
View ArticleThe IT organism
Is an IT department like an organism? If you were to work with that analogy, you might compare the network to the central nervous system, but after that, things will start to get a bit hazy and...
View ArticleThe hard questions
There are three hard questions that every company must be prepared to ask when it comes to data: Why do you care about your data? When do you care about your data? Who cares most about your data?...
View ArticleEnable me
I’m directing this at all IT vendors – your job is enable me. Enable me to work, enable me to sell, enable me to speak with authority on your products. It’s the same story, regardless of whether I’m a...
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Stop, Collaborate and Listen
I’ve been an IT consultant for close to two decades. During that time I’ve worked with a large number of IT departments ranging from those in small, privately held businesses, to departments servicing...
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Stop, Collaborate and Listen (Shareware)
Starting today, I’m offering Stop, Collaborate and Listen in shareware format as a micromanual. You’re encouraged to register, download and read the micromanual, but requested not to distribute it. If...
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2015 – that’s a wrap!
As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection enhancements we’ve seen over the year. There’s certainly been a lot! NetWorker 9 NetWorker 9 of...
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The Importance of Being Earnestly Automated
It was not long after I started in IT that I got the most important advice of my career. It came from a senior Unix system administrator in the team I’d just joined, and it shaped my career. In just...
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Betting the company
Short of networking itself, backup and recovery systems touch more of your infrastructure than anything else. So it’s pretty common for any backup and recovery specialist to be asked how we can protect...
View Article2017 in Review
With just a few more days of 2017 left, I thought it opportune making the last post of the year to summarise some of what we’ve seen in the field of data protection in 2017. It’s been a big year, in a...
View ArticleProtecting your thoughts
There’s a German song, “Die Gedanken sind frei” (“Thoughts are free”), where the first verse runs as follows: Die Gedanken sind frei, wer kann sie erraten, sie fliegen vorbei wie nächtliche Schatten....
View ArticleAustralia demands an end to data protection
Normally on the data protection blog I talk about data protection as it applies to functions such as backup and recovery, CDP, snapshots, etc. Data storage protection, you might say. But there are...
View ArticleHello, 2019
Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a blink of my eyes ago that I was sitting in my office on December 31, 1999, waiting to see whether...
View ArticleReflections on 2018
In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going to see dominating IT for the next decade, automation. It might sound trivial, but good automation is a...
View ArticleUpdated KVM Image Backup Script for NetWorker
In November last year I posted a script and descriptions for use to allow NetWorker to backup RedHat/CentOS KVM images in such a way that the configuration file and virtual disk files are backed up and...
View ArticleGDPR: Do your backups spark joy?
itnews Australia is reporting on a DLA Piper analysis of GDPR operations within Europe since it came into law in May 2018. GDPR – the General Data Protection Regulation – is a fairly broad ranging set...
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