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
There's now been over 15 reviews of my new book, Backup & Recovery (Buy It),…
FacebookXIn my continuing series of challenges with backup with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), I thought I’d look at snapshots, and the unique problem they present. They may be even more problematic than traditional backups. Note: This article is one in a series about GDPR. Here’s a list of articles so far: Worried about…
FacebookXI read with amusement Lauren Whitehouse’s latest blog entry about global dedupe. I’m not saying that I was laughing at anything she was saying, per se; I totally agree with the whole article. I was amused by what customers said about global dedupe. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of…
FacebookXLet’s talk about something that drives me crazy in the backup world – the disconnect between what organizations say their recovery point objective RPO is and what their actual backup practices support. I see this all the time: companies claiming they can only afford to lose an hour of data when they’re backing up once…
FacebookXMaybe you were like me when you first read about NetBackup’s Open Storage Option (OST): you were underwhelmed. You also may have been waiting for vendors to jump on it. (It was announced two years ago.) Things have definitely changed since then. In fact, at a recent very large customer that was considering purchasing a…
FacebookXChris Mellor wrote an article a few months ago that basically predicted the death of tape by 2014. The basis of the article and the prediction was an executive summary of a market analysis report from the Santa Clara Consulting Group, (SCCG), “the leading source of market information relating to the removable data storage industry…
FacebookXA ransomware attack is a severe cybersecurity threat that can have devastating consequences for businesses and individuals. In this blog post, we’ll explore what ransomware is, how it works, and what you can do to protect yourself from this ever-evolving threat. This blog post summarizes the main points of my latest podcast episode. If you’d…