Is it safe to backup data (images, documents, videos, etc…) from a possibly infected computer?

If I had a possibily infected computer, where I had some images and documents that I wanted do backup to a thumb drive, is it possible that that the used thumb drive could be infected and when connected to other computer, inf… Continue reading Is it safe to backup data (images, documents, videos, etc…) from a possibly infected computer?

Enterprises adopt edge workloads, yet still use unsuitable legacy storage solutions

By 2025 organizations will churn out 175 zetta-bytes of data, IDC predicts. However bottlenecks and compute problems continue to plague IT pros as they struggle to support their growing edge workloads, acording to a survey of more than 300 storage prof… Continue reading Enterprises adopt edge workloads, yet still use unsuitable legacy storage solutions

Ensuring Disaster Recoverability for Your Legacy SQL Server 2008/R2


Protecting core infrastructure components like SQL Server is certainly one of the database professional first priorities. However, for those businesses still running SQL Server 2008/R2, that’s become a problem.

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Thirty-four years – Building out Disaster Recovery (Part 6)

In the mid-2000’s, our organization started to get serious about disaster recovery. By that time our core application was an e-learning application that was heavily used (a hundred thousand students on a typical day). That app became critical to ou… Continue reading Thirty-four years – Building out Disaster Recovery (Part 6)

Thirty-four years – System Administration, Backups, and Data Centers (Part 5)

As a side effect of building and running the backbone, I introduced UNIX systems into what was then a wholly VMS organization. We initially used Linux – roughly from 1994 – 1997, then over the next 20+ years, briefly migrated to Solaris x86, then to S… Continue reading Thirty-four years – System Administration, Backups, and Data Centers (Part 5)

Top 3 Enterprise SaaS Data Protection Trends

Cloud computing has come of age, both in terms of adoption and evolution. In order to get more insight into cloud security and data protection trends, ESG surveyed 370 IT professionals responsible for data protection for their organization. Here are th… Continue reading Top 3 Enterprise SaaS Data Protection Trends