Short answer: no, it’s the worst way Alright, the worst way would be to not back it up at all. Sadly that’s the most common way. Other than that, the worst way would be to back it up to a portable hard drive. Portable hard drives are unreliable I have used portable hard drives for…
The datacenter is no longer the center of data. Data that needs to be protected comes from a variety of sources, most of which are not the datacenter. The first one I’m going to talk about is laptops and desktops. There was a time when personal computers were used to access company data, rather than create…
After almost 25 years of specializing in backup and data protection as an end user, consultant, and analyst, I’ve decided to work for my first vendor. I started today at Druva. Why a vendor? Why Now? I figured that it was time to put up or shut up. Put my money where my mouth is. …
Intuit has created a catch 22 that can only be resolved with professional help. The good news is they’ll help you. The bad news is you might have to pay for it. Suppose you’ve been using Quickbooks Online and have decided that you would like to switch to the Desktop Edition for whatever reason. No…
I recently attended the Spectralogic Deep Storage Summit in Boulder Colorado. (They paid for all travel and meals during the trip, but no other remuneration was offered.) Their big announcement was a product that is aimed solidly at Amazon Glacier: Spectra ArcticBlue. ActicBlue is an object-based disk system starting at 300 usable TB and going…
Roaming 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…
Are we breaking backup in a new way by fixing it? That’s the thought I had while interviewing Bryce Hein from Quantum. It made me think about a blog post I wrote four years ago asking whether or not snapshots and replication could be considered a backup. The interview is an interesting one and the…
There are nude photos of you being posted on a website without your permission! Well, that’s what Jennifer Lawrence (and a host of other celebs) learned yesterday. Poor folks. They never meant for those pictures to be public. And you probably never mean for those personal emails you wrote, or pictures you took, or private…
Codespaces.com ceased to exist on June 17th, 2014 because they failed to adhere to the standard advice of not putting all your eggs in one basket. There are a number of things that they could have done to prevent this, but they apparently did none of them. Before I continue, let me say this. I…
Stephen Manley published a blog post today called “Tape is Alive? Inconceivable!” To which I have to reply with a quote from Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” I say that because, for me, it’s very conceivable that tape continues to play the…