W. Curtis Preston will contribute a monthly blog, as well as a number of webcasts, to searchStorage.com. Preston is also featured as one of our "Ask the Experts" writers. Here's his most recent blog entry:
Blogs
Be prepared; get encrypted (01 Jul 2005)
Whether you're part of a big-budget company or have a staff of 10, data encryption can be a life saver in more than one aspect. There are options out there for companies of all sizes.
Also by W. Curtis Preston
Webcasts
Advanced Backup School: Lesson one: Common configuration mistakes: In lesson one of Advanced Backup School, W. Curtis Preston starts to deconstruct the common backup system and points out the mistakes that may be hampering your backup operations
Advanced Backup School: Lesson two: Common configuration mistakes, part two : In lesson two, Curtis covers why too many full backups is a bad thing and why standardizing is a good thing. Also here -- why you can't afford NOT to use disk-based backup.
Advanced Backup School: Lesson three: Disk-based backup: In lesson three of Advanced Backup School, W. Curtis Preston extols the virtues of disk-based backup.
Advanced Backup School: Lesson four: Sizing a backup system: In lesson four of Advanced Backup School, W. Curtis Preston gives you the formula for correctly sizing your backup systems.
About W. Curtis Preston:
W. Curtis Preston authored "Using SANs and NAS" and "Unix Backup and Recovery," the seminal O'Reilly book on backup. He has been designing storage systems for more than 10 years and has designed systems for environments ranging from backup systems for small businesses to enterprise storage systems for Fortune 100 companies. His passion for backup and recovery began with managing the data growth of a 24x7, mission-critical environment. Since that time, Preston has been able to help many companies design resilient storage systems, and his client list includes many Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. W. Curtis Preston is the Vice President of Data Protection Services for GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., the global leader in Storage Services.
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