Charting vendor blogging contribution

Most vendors these days have one or more official or unofficial bloggers. In the storage industry, this is no different.…

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Hearing hype? Do a TNB test

Call me a cynic, but I find buzzword-targetted hype tedious a lot of the time. There’ll always be people hunting…

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Vendors! Listen up! Stop talking about archive when you mean HSM

When it comes to backup and data protection, I like to think of myself as being somewhat of a stickler…

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Think backup belongs in ILM? Think again

In my opinion (and after all, this is my blog), there’s a fundamental misconception in the storage industry that backup…

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Interesting dedupe technology overview at Storagezilla

Storagezilla makes a brief mention of a new EMC acquisition called FastScale. My (even briefer) coverage of it is that…

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Wish list – Extension to “scheduled backup”

Introduced in the 7.4 series of NetWorker was an option for the client resources called “Scheduled backup”. Normally set to…

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NetWorker Single Server Edition

Truth be told, I don’t have any real involvement in EBS (Enterprise Backup Software) these days. If you’re unaware of…

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Top 5 Reflections

So this morning I was looking through the stats for this blog, and I generated the list of most popular…

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When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster?

In the past EMC have not so much “issued” cumulative patch clusters, but let them trickle out on an as-needs…

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Basics – Adding new clients in 7.4.4 and higher

One of the policy changes made in NetWorker 7.4.4 (and which applies to 7.5.x as well) is that of client…

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