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