Like a lot of companies, some of my employer’s plans for the year have been put on hold. For example, we had planned to do a video series where I fly up to Druva’s Sunnyvale headquarters and film a video discussing backups and related things with Stephen Manley. We would broadcast that video on LinkedIn…
Westworld was really just a giant object lesson about proper backup and recovery design. The producers of the show may have felt differently; they seemed to think the show was more about free will or something. I will just say that if the creators behind Westworld (the park) followed proper backup and recovery design, the…
You shouldn’t need an annual day to remind you to treat your sweetheart well. Every day should be Valentine’s Day, right? Reaching out and telling your sweetheart that you love them (or remember them if they are no longer with us) is something that you should do on a very regular basis. Just like backups….
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” This immortal line uttered by Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in “The Princess Bride” perfectly captures my reaction to seeing a major backup vendor marketing a non-SaaS product as SaaS. Buzzword co-opting is not new, and I’ve fought back…
Two events from two major software vendors less than a month apart have proven my point that SaaS companies should not be trusted to backup your data. That is because Salesforce and Microsoft both committed acts that as a backup person I find simply hard to fathom. I will explain both in detail but suffice…
Over one billions email address/password combos were recently leaked under the name “Collection #1,” suggesting there may be more. When something like this happens, I just take a deep breath and change my passwords on any sites that were affected, and I move on with my day. Why can I do that? Because I use…
If you care about your data, back it up. If you don’t care about your data enough to back it up, don’t tell me it’s your vendor’s fault when something goes awry. This is what came to me when I read the article about the Adobe Premier Pro user that lost what he described as…
This was the first time we decided to make our own funny music video to go along with the song. An early effort, of course. Please note the Guitar Hero guitars the band is playing, along with the rusty guitar set. (It makes an appearance in another video.) One of the things we learned over…
Fans of my books and websites may not be aware of my music parody hobby, partly because I never put them all in one place. So I recently uploaded all of them to Youtube, and am going to post them here as separate articles. This was the very first one we did, and we didn’t…
Magnetic devices make mistakes; the only question is how many mistakes will they make. I was presenting a slide a while ago that listed the Bit Error Rates (BERs) for various magnetic media, and someone decided to take issue with it. He basically claimed that it was all bunk and that modern-day magnetic devices don’t…