5 more considerations for deduplication
Recently I wrote, “7 common problems with deduplication“. That covered some of the practicalities that you need to be aware…
Category: Architecture
But where does the DPA fit in?
In yesterday’s post, I suggested that it was time for businesses to recognise and setup a new role – the…
What don’t you backup?
I think this is a question that the average company wholly, inadequately, fails to understand. You see, when it’s asked, people…
7 common problems with deduplication
In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…
Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning
I’m not a storage person, as I’ve been at pains to highlight in the past. My personal focus is at…
The risk of change
Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…
You’re not the boss of me
Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…
Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix
In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…
NetWorker Usage Survey, June 2011
It’s that semi-annual time of the year again when I ask you to take a few minutes to answer some…
This is wrong
In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…