New Years Resolution – back up my own stuff better (part 1)

With twenty years of backup experience, you might presume that my own personal backups might be flawless and in triplicate.   And for my professional workstation, it actually is.  But admittedly, for the rest of my data, such as those invaluable family photos, personal data and other stuff – it admittedly isn’t as well or frequently … Read more

Stop Shipping Tapes – please!

Last week, I saw the latest disclosure on what is still too common – “backup tapes are lost and the amount of disclosure is under investigation” . This time, it was 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients – click to read original article.  The slightly abridged version is: The lost data was stored on … Read more

Partner Webcast on DPM and Appliances from i365

  If you are Microsoft Partner, I’d like to invite you to an upcoming webcast on March 15 at 9AM Pacific time. Go to your Microsoft Partner portal and look up MGT116AL which talks about helping System Center customers with their Backup and Recovery needs.  In this talk, i365 will be talking about their DPM … Read more

ESG reviews DPM 2010 appliance from i365

Don’t ya love it when some of your friends connect with your other friends – and you didn’t even know until they were already connected ?! Well – some of my friends at i365 make a very cool DPM appliance that combines DPM 2010 and i365’s EVAULT software to deliver “Best for Windows” and “Heterogeneous” … Read more