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W. Curtis Preston (aka Mr. Backup) is an expert in backup & recovery systems; a space he has been working in since 1993. He has written four books on the subject, Modern Data Protection, Backup & Recovery, Using SANs and NAS, and Unix Backup & Recovery. Mr. Preston is also an experienced expert witness, independent consultant, and speaker, and has spoken at hundreds of seminars and conferences around the world.
Preston is also the founder of BackupCentral.com and the Restore it All podcast, listened to by thousands of people every month. The podcast is obsessed with helping others keep all their data by making it impervious to cyber attacks, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, errors, and hardware failure. So we talk about backup & recovery, DR, ransomware, cyber security, etc.
Specialties: backup and recovery, public speaking, writing
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Field Day Appearances
Field Day Videos
- Tech Field Day Roundtable Discussion About Intel’s Memory and Storage Moment 2020
- The Druva Difference
- How Druva provides Data Protection for the Cloud Era
- Why Druva Chose the SaaS Approach to Data Protection
- Druva Public Cloud-Native and Why Does it Matter with W. Curtis Preston
- Intel Cloud Day NVMe Storage Roundtable
- Intel Cloud Day Non-Volatile Storage Roundtable
- Backing Up the Cloud Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
- Object Store Backup Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
- High-Performance Object Stores Roundtable at Storage Field Day 9
- Virtualize Everything?
- Virtual Machine Management
- Compellent Roundtable at Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Seattle
Links with Tag @WCPreston
- Solidigm Presents Optane Replacement
- CTERA’s Proactive Solution to Ransomware
- The Truth Behind SaaS Data Recovery With W Curtis Preston
- VMware Goes for Multi-Cloud Support With NSX+
- VMware SaaS-ifies HCX With HCX+
- AMD Faster, Cheaper, and Greener Than Intel and ARM CPUs, Says AMD
- VMware Goes for Multi-Cloud Support With NSX+
- Tech Field Day 19: Druva vs. The Competition
- Tech Field Day 19 – (Fairly) Full Disclosure
- Druva acquires CloudRanger, expands backup capabilities to AWS
- What it was like presenting at Cloud Field Day
- Is a Cloud Gateway Enough?
- Getting Object Storage Ready for the Enterprise – Scality Briefing Note
- Creating Private Cloud Storage that you can Actually use
- Primary Data adds NFS services to VSAN
- Can a Deep Archive in the Cloud be Useful?
- Do you Always Need to Backup?
- Not all “Inline” Dedupe is actually Inline – and it matters
- Moving Data Between Clouds w/AltaVault & OnCloud
- NetApp Finally Pivots
- vSphere tackles the Hyperconverged Infrastructure World: VMware VSAN 6.2