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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Basics – Compliance Retention with PowerProtect Data Manager

PowerProtect Data Manager uses a concept called promotion backups to help you create long-term retention backups. A promotion backup is…

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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.6

USC Australia needed to modernize their data protection services for fast, reliable protection of valuable research data and support future…

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Basics – File-level recovery from agent-based backups in PPDM

A lot of the PPDM content I’ve shown thus far has revolved around virtual machine backups. But sometimes you need…

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What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5?

Last week saw the release of PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) 19.5. That’s the fifth release of PPDM since its inception,…

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Say Hello to PowerProtect Data Manager 19.4

We’ve just had our long, long weekend in Australia. Back in the days of tape libraries, there used to be…

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#WhyIProtectWithDell

Last month I ran a competition to celebrate 2,000,000+ blog visitors. The competition was simple: tell me an example of…

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Basics – Getting Data Protection Central Installed and Running

Data Protection Central is, to me, a great mechanism for keeping your eye on your data protection environment. If you’re…

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Basics – PPDM 19.3 VMware Recoveries

In this continuing PPDM basics series, I wanted to step you through the process of the following two activities: Performing…

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Basics – PPDM 19.3 File Level Search from Image-Based Backups

I’ve been really looking forward to this demo video. When PPDM 19.3 was being worked on, I sat in a…

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