Posted by Mark Campbell
While most of us may use a monitoring tool or collection of tools to help manage backup and recovery planning, there are gaps in what we know about the allocation of storage across the infrastructure....Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 40% of businesses fail to reopen after a disaster (flood, fire, hurricane, blizzard or earthquake). Businesses that lose critical data are ...Read More
Posted by Brooke Bullman
What Problems Do IT Pros Face? The industry has talked about the rise of cloud backup for years now. But what do the numbers show? Who’s actually using the cloud for backup and disaster recovery, an...Read More
Posted by Mark Jordan
World Backup Day on March 31 each year has a slogan ready-made by the calendar; don’t be an April Fool, backup your data. And that is what we do, we backup data day after day, month after month, yea...Read More
Posted by Alberto Gonzalez
Over the past few years, we have seen many new companies that try to classify themselves in a new market category called Copy Data Management or Copy Data Virtualization. In my opinion, this is a mark...Read More
Posted by Alberto Gonzalez
In a previous post, we reviewed a GitLab issue and asked our readers, what is the worst sysadmin mistakes you have made? While searching for information on the topic I discovered this Reddit thread wi...Read More
Posted by Alberto Gonzalez
Last week GitLab went down because of a human error when a sysadmin made a mistake and removed a production folder. When I read that, I remembered my early days working as system administrator. I man...Read More
Posted by Mark Jordan
Why should I not buy a backup appliance? Hey, wait a second, didn’t we publish a Why Should I Buy a Backup Appliance blog post just yesterday? Yes, we did. A well-written argument by my friend Jua...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
Why should I buy a backup appliance? Wow, that question hits me in my wheel house! When pondered, the answer comes after humbling myself and realizing that “I don’t know what I don’t know!” Or...Read More
Posted by Alberto Gonzalez
VMware Linked Clones is a great technology that creates copies of a Virtual Machine that shares virtual disks with the parent virtual machine. This has two benefits: it conserves disk space creating c...Read More