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Frequent visitors to this blog will be well aware of the various comments I’ve made about the impact of filesystems…
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll know that one key ongoing performance issue I refer to…
Bigger, faster, better. That’s one of the common catch-phrases of backup architecture. Backup window too small? Buy faster, and more…
Introduction When choosing to deploy backup to disk by using adv_file devices (instead of say, VTLs), there are some design…
This article might be summarised as: I wish Microsoft would pull their heads in and design better email client software.…
Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…
Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…
Recently Australia’s largest grocery chain followed some of the other chains and started offering unit pricing on their products. For…
Or, “In 5 years time will we reflect on VTLs as an example of a bad direction in data protection?”…