Category Archives: General

Does Data Governance Drive Your Data Protection?

Posted on July 19, 2019 by Alastair

Is your data protection driven by your data governance? You do have data governance policies, don’t you? Data governance policies should come from the business that generates data and identifies how that data needs to be cared for and protected. … Continue reading →

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Starting Out With the Cohesity PowerShell Module

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Alastair

The best automation is definitely one that is built into the platform or product. However, each business is unique, so there is also a need for custom automation. Today I will dig into the beginnings of writing PowerShell automation against … Continue reading →

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Tech Field Day 19, Next Week

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Alastair

It has been over a year since my last full Tech Field Day event, and I’m delighted to be going to Silicon Valley next week for Tech Field Day 19. I am particularly looking forward to a mix of old … Continue reading →

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The Best Automation Is One You Don’t Write

Posted on June 18, 2019 by Alastair

Business process automation is an essential part of what IT delivers, and central to allowing IT to deliver business automation is using IT automation. You may recall lots of vBrownBag content around “Automate all the things” a few years ago. … Continue reading →

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Simply Zerto, It Just Works.

Posted on May 31, 2019 by Alastair

I had a great chat with a Zerto customer while we were eating lunch at ZertoCon last week. The customer is an MSP that offers Backup and DR as services to their customers. The DR as a Service (DRaaS) is … Continue reading →

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Cohesity Adds Imanis for More Cloud-native

Posted on May 29, 2019 by Alastair

Hopefully, you understand that cloud-native applications have very different architecture and different databases compared to traditional enterprise applications. There are now modern enterprise applications, which use cloud-native services and databases alongside traditional application constructs. We also see more enterprises having … Continue reading →

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ZertoCon, Small Is Beautiful

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Alastair

One of the beautiful things about a small conference is feeling less like I’m lost in a crowd. I spent three days in Nashville at ZertoCon with a few hundred other attendees. A smaller conference meant smaller queues for food … Continue reading →

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Protecting Nutanix AHV with Cohesity

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Alastair

This week I had a look at using my Cohesity cluster to protect a Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) environment. Most of my experience with Nutanix was using vSphere as the hypervisor, in which case Cohesity sees a vSphere environment. This … Continue reading →

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Long Haul to ZertoCon 2019

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Alastair

Next week I will be in Nashville for ZertoCon. Two firsts for me as I have never been to Tennessee or ZertoCon. I also get to have my longest flight, almost fifteen hours direct from Auckland to Chicago before my … Continue reading →

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Guarantees Are Good for Business and Engineering

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Alastair

When I first met Pure Storage, at Virtualization Field Day Three, the company objective was to deliver an all-flash storage array that was cost competitive with disk-based arrays. At that time Pure Storage was optimizing for cost, rather than all-out … Continue reading →

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