A blog about my adventures in IT
In the last post, we talked about disaster recovery and business continuity as a social contract, not a pretty Visio diagram: getting the right people to agree on what “good” looks like before anything...
We’ve all seen the shiny disaster recovery and business continuity decks. Neat tiers. Arrows between regions. RPO/RTO numbers in big bold fonts. Maybe a sprinkle of buzzwords around immutable backups, zero trust, or AI-driven...
We’ve all seen the glossy DR diagrams. Colour‑coded tiers, neat arrows flowing between regions, “RTO 15 mins” stuck in bold above some perfectly aligned icons. It all looks calm and controlled – until the...
Background This is a collection of my thoughts and experiences from working in the IT reseller space. Finding something new to sell is easy, finding the right thing to sell is rather more difficult....
What is SASE I hear you ask? SASE or Secure Access Service Edge as the acronym stands for is a combination of many existing technologies such as SD-WAN, Zero Trust Network Access, Cloud App...
Background When Veeam Backup and Replication 9.4 U4 was released in January 2019, it brought with it a new licensing model called Instance licensing. The marketing machine at Veeam would have you believe this...
Why? I am going to try something a little different here and start with why for the rather than what, after watching this TED video from Simon Sinek. I made an investment in myself...
Managed agents, Veeam, physical workloads, Whats that about then? Well then, Veeam has come full circle from its roots as a virtual infrastructure backup platform, to a full availability suite. Offering backups to the...
Background On day 0 of DockerCon EU, I had the opportunity to listen to a presentation from NetApp and how their product suites compliment the Docker and container ecosystem in general. For me, this...
Background. I recently returned from Tech Field Day 15 where Scale Computing was giving the delegates an overview of their very recently announced HC3 Cloud Unity with Google Cloud Platform. I will be honest,...
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