Tag: recovery

AD Admins: Are you prepared for the worst?

One of Aesop’s greatest fables, titled ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’, teaches us a priceless lesson for life – it is best to be prepared for the future. While the grasshopper makes merry dancing and singing during summer, the ant diligently stashes away every bit of food it can save

My iCloud Password is “iCloud”

I guess the editor at  MCP  Magazine who fired me for talking about  passphrases  and ways to secure your passwords is looking rather foolish at this point. Years and years ago, I wrote an article on securing passwords – only to be told that I was out of touch with reality when I suggested that everyone needed to use more secure passwords.  With the latest attack on the  iCloud  due to weak and pathetic passwords, you’d think that ​  the attack’s victims would have appreciated learning the password strategies I was advocating 10 years ago! Apple now is saying that it is not their fault that the nude pictures of so many celebrities were obtained from their cloud storage ​ .   Does that mean that the weak questions for  iCloud  password recovery aren’t their responsibility either?  I truly hope that this latest attack on the  iCloud  opens the eyes of everyone who uses social media, social networking, centralized cloud storage, and other online resources

NetApp Business Continuity Solutions for VMware

Video covers… – VMware vSphere and NetApp Unified Storage – VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance – VMware Site Recovery Manager – VMware Continuous Availability with MetroCluster – Comprehensive Protection with MetroCluster and SnapMirror – Simplify Protection with NetApp SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure