All this DeDupe is making me thirsty!

In a previous article, I discussed how deduplication is one of those technologies that still straddles the gap between bleeding…

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Jobquery finally gets the duct tape removed

Some time ago, I posted that EMC had added a jobquery utility to allow probing of the NetWorker jobs database…

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Why I’d choose NetWorker over NetBackup Every Time

I thought it about time that I cited the two key reasons why, if faced with a choice between NetWorker…

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The A-Z of Backup and Recovery

I’ve debated for a while whether to do this or not, since it might come across as somewhat twee. I…

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The top 10 for 2009

Looking at the stats both for this new site and the previous site, I’ve compiled a list of the top…

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Thinking big about VTL? Think again, it’s all about thinking small

A common mistake I see people make when planning VTL implementations is to aim to keep virtual media of a…

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Pictorial representation of management happiness over OpEx cost savings

There is a profoundly important backup adage that should be front and centre in the mind of any backup administrator,…

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EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup

With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…

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Storage Tiering vs ILM

Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…

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Enhancing NetWorker Security: A theoretical architecture

It’s fair to say that no one backup product can be all things to all people. More generally, it’s fair…

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