What do I always tell you in my books, blogs, and podcast? Don’t use your backup system as an archive system. And heaven help you the day you try to satisfy a big e-discovery case using...
Here is the cautionary tale of Musey – yet another tragic story of cloud data loss that should serve as a wake-up call to all of us. Musey was a promising startup pouring millions into...
As a long-time backup & recovery expert, I’ve seen a lot of backup plans go wrong. But few tales are as tragic or illustrative as the 2014 hack that utterly decimated Code Spaces. They lost their...
Cohesity announced last night that it would acquire the NetBackup & Alta assets of Veritas, to create a company with a combined annual revenue of $1.6B. So many thoughts. I remember when Veritas...
Remember when Intel came out with this wonderful SSD offering called Optane, and then decided they didn’t want to make it any more? Groans could be heard across the industry. Luckily they sold...
Data security is no longer an option; it’s a necessity. In a world where cyber threats loom around every corner, safeguarding your valuable data has never been more critical. At Storage Field...
Like a lot of folks, I hadn’t thought about AMD in a while. Intel is killing them in the high end and ARM is killing them on the low end, right? AMD was done for. I mean, I would see their CPUs in...
After VMware presented their NSX+ product at Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore, they talked about their new HCX+ product, which is a SaaS-based version of their HCX product. With their HCX...
I had the opportunity to watch VMware’s presentation on HSX+ at Tech Field Day Extra at VMware Explore 2023. Here are my thoughts on the evolution of this product. First, let’s pump the brakes for a...
I read a blog post yesterday written by Chris Colotti that described a scenario that sounds horrible: a backup service deleting a customer’s data with little to no notice. A few disclaimers:...