vSphere Integration without Flash is Even Better

Introduction What with it being wrapped around easter and ANZAC day, I took last week off to get some writing…

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Pay the Ransom or Recover the Data?

Let’s consider a theoretical scenario: your business has been hit by Ransomware, and a chunk of data on a fileserver…

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Proof of Concept: Docker with BoostFS

Docker: it’s where all the cool kids are playing these days (or so I’m told). It’s certainly got some good…

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Data Domain Virtual Edition Extends Multi-Cloud Support

When Data Domain OS 6.2 was released, one of the new features enabled for virtual edition (DDVE) was support for…

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Data Domain 3300 Update

I love big Data Domains, don’t get me wrong. When you take an appliance like the Data Domain 9800 that…

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Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement

When it comes to extending to object storage for long term retention, you really can’t beat Data Domain. Cloud Tiering…

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Reflections on 2018

In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going…

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Data Protection Suite 18.2

Introduction Earlier this month, Data Protection Suite 18.2 was released. This covers: Avamar Data Protection Advisor (DPA) Data Protection Central…

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Accelerating Oracle Recoveries with NetWorker 18.1

Introduction When NetWorker 18.1 was released, it wasn’t just the core NetWorker environment that got an update – the application…

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Basics – Getting started with BoostFS

Intro One of the things I’m keen to try in NetWorker 18.1 is the new Orchestrated Application Protection (OAP) feature…

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