Office 365 Backup Is Your Responsibility
BEWARE: You are responsible for backing up your Office 365 data. A Story Right Out of Hollywood If you’ve ever seen Live Free or Die Hard (2007), you’ll remember Bruce […]
Understanding Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery provides offline copies of your virtual servers replicated to Microsoft every 15 minutes. Since 2008, the technology has existed to replicate virtual servers from a physical network across […]
Why Snapshots Are Not Backups
You are likely one of those too. You want terabytes of data accessible anywhere on any device. The same is true of your most critical applications. If you inadvertently delete […]
Equallogic Firmware Upgrade 2013
So it’s time again. Usually, once per year you should update your Dell Equallogic SAN firmware. Unlike competing manufacturers, annual Dell Equallogic maintenance doesn’t double each year and covers not only parts […]
Online Backup Shift
Where is that tape? Is it melting in a car or readily accessible at an employee’s house for the neighborhood bad kid to copy or swipe? Oh, you’re smarter than that […]
Better Recovery
It’s the typical Nolan Growth Model. You start out with RAID 5 and tape. Then you graduate to encapsulation with applications and data spread across several servers, but often it […]
When Everything Goes Dark, Plans Become Fiction
The first thing you lose isn’t power. It’s certainty. One moment you’re watching weather reports with casual concern. The next, transformers are exploding across the state, lines are collapsing under […]
Your Backup Strategy Looked Fine Until Someone Asked About Recovery Time
The outage lasted just over an hour. Long enough to interrupt operations. Short enough to downplay. No data was lost. Systems came back. Phones stopped ringing. If you’re in leadership, […]
A Minor Outage Proved Disaster Recovery Was Still Just a Theory
The outage lasted forty-two minutes. Short enough to dismiss. Long enough to expose everything. A network device failed. Redundancy didn’t engage. Traffic stalled. Phones lit up. “What’s the failover plan?” […]