Commvault at TFDx RSAC 2026: Clean Recovery Is a Different Problem Than Fast Recovery
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth — Mike Tyson
Object First at TFDx RSAC 2026: If You Can Turn It Off, It Wasn't Immutable
“When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.
Veeam at TFDx RSAC 2026: Three Generations of Resilience (And You Need to Prepare for All of Them)
Rick Vanover, CTO of Veeam, opened his segment at Tech Field Day Extra RSAC 2026 with a statement that was either refreshingly honest or a very good bit of self-aware marketing: “Our audience has a very highly calibrated BS meter.
Security Audits
If you work in IT for even a few minutes, you’ll almost assuredly run headlong into the wonderful world of security audits—ostensibly, services to help you better secure your organization and its assets from internal and external threats.
Zerto
I think that security is still the hottest topic in the IT world right now, the faux AI craze notwithstanding.
Security Field Day 2024
In my current role in the IT industry, I think about disaster recovery (DR), continuous data protection (CDP), and overall ransomware recovery almost all the time.
Moving to Hugo
Since its inception, this blog has run on WordPress. I hosted it with a hosting provider, who gave me a dedicated VM on which I installed WordPress and the assorted tools, themes, and plugins to make it run how I wanted it to.
New Blog Host, New Blog Post
I’m finally back after several years of writing in just about any place other than my lovely blog.
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