Cloud Tier gets Cold

In July, PowerProtect DD received an update to DDOS 7.9. In this article I want to talk about a fantastically…

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What is Smart Scale?

A single PowerProtect DD series appliance can hold a staggering amount of backup data within your environment. The DD9900 for…

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NetWorker Dedupe Stats, Redux

Where we’re at A few weeks ago I posted a (lengthy) Perl script (and explanation) for running deduplication analysis against…

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Crunching NetWorker Deduplication Stats

If you use NetWorker with Data Domain, you’ve probably sometimes wanted to know which of your clients have the best…

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PowerProtect Cloud Snapshot Manager Gets Deduplication

I sometimes go into meetings with new customers who think of Dell EMC just as a hardware company. These businesses…

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Data Protection in 2020: Reflections

Or, the world is burning but data protection goes on. Did someone get the license plate of the year that…

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PowerProtect DD Series Appliances Updates

It’s been a busy couple of months with data protection updates in the Dell Technologies family, and that’s continued with…

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NetWorker Volume Move

Introduced at the same time as NetWorker 19.4, the NetWorker Volume Move system allows you to migrate a backup volume…

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Data Domain Basics – Hardening Password Controls

While you can integrate Data Domain with an external authentication service such as LDAP or ActiveDirectory, not everyone chooses to…

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DDOS 7.3 loves the Cloud

Data Domain isn’t just hardware – the hardware-based systems pack some punch, of course, but core to the system functionality is…

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