“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...
Two events from two major software vendors less than a month apart have proven my point that SaaS companies should not be trusted to backup your data. That is because Salesforce and Microsoft both...
There have been a lot of announcements in the last year or so where VMware is available on various cloud or cloud-like platforms. If you’re wondering what the difference is between these...
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...
If you care about your data, back it up. If you don’t care about your data enough to back it up, don’t tell me it’s your vendor’s fault when something goes awry. This is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The answer is absolutely yes, and anyone who thinks you don’t need to do so should not be put in charge of your data. Also, anyone who thinks I’m saying this just because I work for a...