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Hello and welcome back! Today we’re tackling one of the most important — and honestly, most exciting — parts of building a serious storage system: getting your very first OpenZFS pool architecture right. We’re going to demystify vdevs, mirrors, RAID-Z, and the permanent decisions you’ll make in the first thirty minutes that will affect your…
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Hello and welcome back, fellow travelers! If you’ve ever trusted your precious digital memories, business documents, or critical project files to “just work,” today’s episode might make you a little uncomfortable—in the best possible way. We’re diving into one of the most overlooked threats in the entire storage world: silent data corruption, better known by…
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Hello and a very warm welcome back, fellow data travelers! If you’ve been following along in our Mastering Cost, Security, and Resilience series, you know we’re on a mission to treat storage as something far more important than a simple digital drawer. Today in Episode 3, we’re meeting the star of the show: ZFS. I…
Taming the Data Backup Beast: Compliance, Remote Work, and Peace of Mind
Right, let’s talk data backup. Not the most glamorous topic, I know, but absolutely critical, especially now we’re all juggling remote work and ever-evolving regulations. I’ve spent the last few months deep-diving into this, and honestly, it’s a minefield if you don’t approach it strategically. My aim is to help you sidestep those digital landmines….
Taming the Data Backup Beast: Compliance, Remote Work, and Peace of Mind
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Network Audits: A Chat with Niamh About Keeping the Lights On
Alright, settle in folks, because today I’m diving into the often-overlooked but absolutely critical world of network security auditing and compliance. I recently had a cracking chat with Niamh, a seasoned security architect, about keeping our networks locked down and ticking all the right regulatory boxes. Turns out, it’s more than just running a vulnerability…
Network Audits: A Chat with Niamh About Keeping the Lights On
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Hello and welcome back! It’s genuinely great to have you here for Episode 2 of Mastering Cost, Security, and Resilience. Today we’re pulling back the curtain on one of the sneakiest forces in all of IT budgeting: the true Total Cost of Ownership of your data storage. Let me ask you the same question I’ve…
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Orchestrated Defence: Weaving EDR and Network Security into a Unified Shield
Alright, settle in folks, I recently had a cracking chat with Daniel, a seasoned cybersecurity architect, about something near and dear to my heart: the elegant dance between Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and network security. We got deep into how to fuse these two powerhouse technologies into a unified, automated defence. Forget the days…
Orchestrated Defence: Weaving EDR and Network Security into a Unified Shield
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Navigating the Multi-Vendor Storage Minefield: Security and Compliance Challenges
Alright folks, buckle up. We’re diving deep into the murky waters of multi-vendor storage security and compliance, a topic that’s kept me (and I suspect many of you) up at night more than once. I recently tackled an article comparing one-vendor versus multi-vendor storage from a security and compliance angle. The goal? To provide data-driven…
Navigating the Multi-Vendor Storage Minefield: Security and Compliance Challenges
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Data Protection Tango: Navigating the Multi-Vendor Minefield
Had a fascinating chat with Hayden the other day about something that keeps cropping up in my work: data protection and disaster recovery in the wonderfully messy world of multi-vendor storage. You see it everywhere now; organisations have bits of their data estate scattered across on-premise SANs, public clouds like AWS or Azure, maybe some…
Data Protection Tango: Navigating the Multi-Vendor Minefield
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Hello and welcome to the very first episode of Mastering Cost, Security, and Resilience! I’m delighted you’re here. Over the coming weeks, we’re going to have some genuinely fun (and occasionally eye-opening) conversations about the foundations that either accelerate or quietly throttle modern enterprises. And I can’t think of a better place to start than…
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