Charting vendor blogging contribution
Most vendors these days have one or more official or unofficial bloggers. In the storage industry, this is no different….
Category: General thoughts
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Top 5 Reflections
So this morning I was looking through the stats for this blog, and I generated the list of most popular…
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…
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…