I’m doubling down on my opinion that the GDPR is not going to be able to force companies to “forget” people in their backups – especially personal data found inside an RDBMS or...
I’m still just thinking out loud here. Again… not an attorney. I have read the GDPR and done some analysis of it, primarily around the right to be forgotten (RTBF) and how it pertains...
I am not a lawyer. I’m not even what I consider a GDPR specialist. But I’ve read a lot of the text of the GDPR, and I’ve read a lot about it and watched a lot of videos. So...
Presenting at a Gestalt IT “Field Day” (Cloud Field Day in this case) was very different than being a delegate. So I thought I’d blog about it – just like a delegate. What is Cloud...
It’s more true now than any other time in history: data really can be anywhere. Which means you need to be able to protect it anywhere and everywhere. And the backup architecture you choose...
Imagine if you had to lease a car in order to use Uber. That’s the logic behind how many infrastructure software vendors sell their “service” in the cloud. These “services” come in a couple of...
Last week I wrote the first of what will probably be a few articles about GDPR, EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. It governs the protection of “personal data” that your...
If you haven’t looked into how your data protection vendors are preparing for the General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR), you’re already behind the power curve. It goes into effect...
Depending on how you do it, the cloud can be much less expensive than using on-premises systems. But it can also much more expensive. It all depends on you use the public cloud. The expensive way:...
There’s a story going around about Apple’s MacOS APFS sparse disk images occasionally losing their mind and throwing documents out the window. Yet another example of why we do backups...