Deduplication Usage in NetWorker
Following from my NetWorker Survey Results for 2013, I’ve been going through the survey data in more detail, and spotted…
Category: Architecture
NetWorker Usage Survey 2013 Results
The results from the 2013 NetWorker Usage Survey are in, and the report is available. Continuing on from previous years,…
What’s your test environment?
While virtualisation has introduced additional complexities into our lives from a backup perspective, you can’t argue with the benefits it…
Spy vs Agent
Since VMware entered the server space, a simple problem has plagued backup administrators: Backup via a client installed in the VM? or…
Data Domain: VTL vs Boost
If you’re looking at deploying Data Domain with NetWorker, but are coming from a physical tape or even an alternate…
Data protection lessons from a tomato
Data protection lessons from a tomato? Have I gone mad? Bear with me. If you’ve done any ITIL training, the…
Of accidental architectures
EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…
NetWorker 8.1 Overview
As is typically the case, EMC and my timing has been a little out of whack. They announced their “backup…
Cloud and Backups
The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…
All frameworks have limits
One of the most powerful aspects of NetWorker is that the entire design philosophy of the product is that of…