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FacebookXAt Tech Field Day 5, we learned about Druva (formerly Druvaa), who has developed a completely new mobile backup product.  Not sure if the world needed another one, I listened closely to how they were going to differentiate themselves.  First, I can say that they definitely understood the needs of the mobile backup market.  It’s…

FacebookXOne of the most valuable resources your company has it probably not being backed up properly  – if at all. Like a lot of cloud services, the ability of salesforce customers to recover from big mistakes or a malicious attack is a bit overstated. Let’s take a look at that. Big, bad update Say, for…

FacebookX Keep it up, Apple, and I’m going back to Windows. I was a Windows customer for many years.  Despite running virus/malware protection and being pretty good at doing the right things security-wise, I had to completely rebuild Windows at least once a year — and it usually happened when I really didn’t have the…

FacebookXSomebody said something on Facebook about Festivus, and it just seemed appropriate for what I’m going through right now. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data

FacebookX[This story originally happened in 2007, but I just learned about it, so I blogged about it.  Then I learned that it was a four-year-old story.    Everything here still applies, even if the actual story is old.  But I did re-edit the story and change it’s title because the original wording seems a bit…

FacebookXRoaming the aisles of Dreamforce 2014 taught me one thing: backups are here to stay.  You can move everything you can into the cloud, but your data still has to be protected against natural and human-created disasters.  Moving it to the cloud doesn’t change that. I’ve always felt that way, but I thought for a…