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Curtis and Prasanna

Valentine’s Day and Backups

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...

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Backup Vendors are Co-Opting SaaS

“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...

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Please use a password manager

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...

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A parody of How to Save a Life

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...

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Bad restore – A Music Video Parody

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...

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Does Bit Error Rate Matter?

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...

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Why doesn’t everyone do source dedupe?

It seems to me that source dedupe is the most efficient way to backup data, so why is it that very few products do it? This is what I found myself thinking about today. Source dedupe is the way to go...

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