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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

November 2005: Autonomy agrees to buy search technology developer Verity for $500 milllion, its third acquisition of the year after NCorp (in February) and etalk (in June). May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million.

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Colophon

James Shore

I’m paranoid about backups and revision control. I also make a bootable whole-disk backup using SuperDuper! Every quarter, I rotate one of the backup drives to an off-site location. I use Pingdom as a backup alerting system. I run my CME locally for testing, then commit and deploy to my web host when I’m ready to go live.

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Big Iron

The Daily WTF

Hey,” Lesli’s boss suggested, circa late 2005. You’ll need to finish formatting and then recover from backup. That wasn’t so bad when it was once a quarter, but when disks needed to be replaced twice a month, the hassle of getting a tech on-site, through the multiple layers of security, and into the server room became a burden.

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Re-Examine Your Backup Strategy This World Backup Day

Kaseya

World Backup Day was originally called World Backup Month. It was initiated in March 2005 by a hard-disk drive company called Maxtor (which got acquired by Seagate Technology). Later, Youngstown State University student Ismail Jadun created the World Backup Day which is observed on March 31st every year. Automate Backup.

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What is MTTR and How Does It Impact Your Bottom Line?

xmatters

When Hurricane Katrina hit the US Gulf Coast in 2005, Axcent Networks owned and operated most of the telephone landline infrastructure. You can identify which components fail frequently and take action to replace them regularly, have backups in place for unrepairable systems, and quickly access information for a quick resolution.

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How Git Can Power an Exciting Future for Content Management

Netlify

Dropbox can backup files, but what about the metadata associated with the changes? In 2005 we reached the third generation of VCS with Git. As well as tracking the history of each file, modern VCSs track groups of changes, also known as commits, allowing you to return an entire project to a particular point in time.

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The Unvarnished Truth of being a Woman in Tech

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

In 2005 I got an opportunity at a Startup to transition my career into management. Modern Marvel of Cloud engineering where you don’t have to worry about maintaining the infrastructure, worry about the scale and other services such as monitoring, security, logging, disaster recovery, load balancing, backup, etc.