BCP BCP and extreme weather events In this blog I discuss extreme weather events especially the current heatwave and why people exercising precautions are sensible, not snowflakes.
Disaster Recovery CDN's - the new internet based single point of failure? Fastly had a global CDN outage. With it went a large chunk of the internet. Why did this happen and why aren't companies including upstream providers in their DR and BCP plans?
vcentre Restoring VCentre from a file based backup Restoring VCentre from a VCentre backup due to cat induced corruption..... Yup, that's a thing that happened!
Disaster Recovery The difference between DR and BCP The differences between BCP and DR and very important to understand as each has an impact on a businesses ability to be able to run. Here I break down the key differences between the two.
vcentre Recovering a corrupt 6.7 VCentre after a storage outage A power outage on my NAS corrupted VCentre, this is how I recovered it.
Veeam Exploring Veeam's Windows Agent Years ago I worked at Symbian software (later to be taken over and destroyed by Nokia and Microsoft but that’s a story for another time), there I deployed Connected Data protector which
Hypervisor Disaster recovery and why Hypervisor HA may not be best One of the things I always caution against is relying on hypervisor HA, all too often it won't give you the results that you expect, have a read of my blog over on
Outage A follow up on the British Airways outage More details have emerged on the BA outage with a detailed article being posted on the register. As with my previous blog, I'd like to go through the register article and add my
Disaster Recovery Reviewing the British Airways IT failure It's probably not escaped anyones attention that British Airways have had a major IT failure today, the big question around this is why the failure is not at 10 hours in and still
Veeam News from VeeamON After attending VeeamOn last week, I wanted to highlight a few things that Veeam announced during the conference as there were certainly some interesting advances to Veeam, all coming soon. Universal Storage API
Vmware Avoiding a gitlab style outage with Blue/Green deployments As most of you are probably aware, Gitlab is, in part, a source code hosting repository which suffered something of a major outage just a few weeks ago. Unusually, they posted a very
War Stories New goal - We want to be CMM level 3 For those who don't know CMM stands for . It's a set of standards designed to help an organisations software processes to the point that a software project is easily repeatable. What this actually