Data Domain Goes Virtual

This week was a big one for the data protection industry, with the official release of Data Domain Virtual Edition (DDVE). DDVE offers…

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Who should handle your database backups?

I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…

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Data isn’t data isn’t data

An integral part of effective data protection is data awareness. You can’t adequately protect what you don’t know about, but…

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NetWorker Usage Survey for 2015

It’s that time of the year again where I ask my readers and the NetWorker Community to spend a few minutes…

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NetWorker 9: The future of backup

Introduction When NetWorker 8 was released I said at the time it represented the biggest consolidated set of changes to NetWorker…

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LTO-7 and the Streaming Conundrum

The LTO consortium has announced: That the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 specifications are now available for licensing by storage mechanism…

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Tales from the trenches – Tape

I’m back in a position where I’m having a lot of conversations with customers who are looking at infrastructure change.…

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Pool size and deduplication

When you start looking into deduplication, one of the things that becomes immediately apparent is … size matters. In particular, the size of…

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NetWorker to the Cloud

Introduced alongside NetWorker 8.2 SP1 is integration with a new EMC product, CloudBoost. The purpose of CloudBoost is to allow a NetWorker…

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One target to rule them all

Introduction It’s true there are some data types that broadly aren’t suitable to sending to Data Domain – any more than they’re suitable for sending to…

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