Service catalogues are sometimes seen as an unwieldy way of introducing order with a substantial risk of introducing red tape.…
A little over 5 years ago now, I wrote an article titled, Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes. It’s long…
Backup security is – or rather should be a big requirement in any organisation. Sadly we still see periodic examples…
If you’ve come from a tape library environment, you’re well aware the only way to share a tape library between multiple…
It’s that time of the year again where I ask my readers to set aside 5 minutes or so to…
Introduction There’s currently three distinct and still-supported mechanisms for backing up virtual machines in NetWorker. These are: Traditional (in-guest agent)…
Between the Boost libraries included in NetWorker 8.2, and the in-flight encryption functionality added in Data Domain OS 5.5, it’s…
Client direct is a (relatively) new feature, introduced in the 8.x series, (8.0 to be exact) which allows for a client…
I’m a big fan of lab testing – it’s the only way you can safely work out how to do potentially…
One question that comes up every now and then concerns having an optimal approach to Data Domain Boost devices in…