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Ransomware attacks are no longer a question of if—it's a matter of when. With hackers increasingly targeting backup and disaster recovery (DR) systems, organizations need more than prevention strategies; they need a battle-tested plan for minimizing damage, forensically determining what's...

This podcast is only for customers of the Fluenz Spanish program. I am not affiliated with Fluenz, other than being a customer and a huge fan. This podcast doesn't even come close to the awesomeness of that program, and you should go immediately try it if you haven't already. The only purpose of this podcast (which uses an automated computer voice that can sometimes be hard to understand) is to allow you to review what you've already learned from Fluenz. I started building a spreadsheet of the vocabulary & sentences from each lesson, then I figured out a way to use Amazon Polly to create an ...

Jeff Rochlin and W. Curtis Preston get together to talk about the Things That Entertain Us!

Formerly known as "Restore it All," The Backup Wrap-up podcast turns unappreciated backup admins into cyber recovery heroes. After a brief analysis of backup-related news, each episode dives deep into one topic that you can use to better protect your organization from data loss, be it from accidents, disasters, or ransomware. The Backup Wrap-up is hosted by W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and his co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi. Curtis' passion for backups began over 30 years ago when his employer, a $35B bank, lost its purchasing database – and the backups he was in charge of were worthless. ...