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  • My podcast video gear

    Starting a podcast or even just leveling up your video conferencing game can seem really intimidating if you don’t love nerding out on technology. So, below is the technology that I use. This list breaks down into a “Good, Better, Best, and Beyond Best” recommendations, based on what I use today. GOOD – the minimum…

  • Hierarchy of Needs in Data Protection

    In support of World Backup Day 2020, here is a relatively short (12m) video on the Hierarchy of Needs in Data Protection.  For those familiar with the original psychology, Maslow’s Pyramid of Needs described that until you’ve met the foundational elements of food, water, shelter (layer one), you couldn’t really feel safe (layer two), have…

  • Which cloud should you use for data protection and why

    Last week, we discussed how there is no such thing as “the cloud” — but instead, there are multiple types of cloud-based services that affect both your production and your protection strategies. Even if we just focus on Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) or Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), or the use of cloud-based storage in complement to an on-premises backup…

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  • Why ‘cloud’ & ‘reliability’ are driving IT changes into 2020

    For the last three weeks, we covered “the problem” which is a reality gap between what business units are expecting and what IT is able to deliver in terms of IT systems’ uptime and assurance against data loss. We covered that from both a technical solutions perspective and a business perspective. For the next two weeks,…

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  • Why downtime is not (just) an IT problem

    One of the most dangerous things that business folks can do is to create a “us and them” mentality between those that use IT services and those that deliver them. Kind of like in politics, when the camps are already divided, it’s that much harder to collaborate — even if it is just sharing needs,…

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  • Do you have a ‘reality gap’ in your IT strategy?

    One of my favorite exercises to help executives with is to separate their business unit leaders into one room and their IT leaders somewhere else nearby. Then, we ask each group a version of the same question: Ask the business leaders, “How long can your operations function if the IT systems go offline?” Ask the IT…

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