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Keeping Cloud Data Protection Costs Low

 Preston de Guise  October 11, 2021

The NIST Cloud Computing framework defines the following essential characteristics of cloud computing: On-demand self-service Broad network access Resource pooling…

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 Posted in: Cloud, PowerProtect  Tagged: cloud, cloud computing, cloud cost, cost, DDVE, PowerProtect Data Manager, public cloud

PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 – Revolutionary Protection for VMware

 Preston de Guise  September 27, 2021  1 Comment on PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 – Revolutionary Protection for VMware

Introduction In Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd says to James Bond, “There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets; this is the…

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 Posted in: PowerProtect  Tagged: NAS, PPDM, transparent snapshots, VMware
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Fundamental Decision Domains for Workload Migration

 Preston de Guise  September 15, 2021

What do I mean by workload migration? We hear about workload migration all the time, particularly as businesses continue to…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Best Practice  Tagged: Workload migration
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28 Days Later – Managing the Challenges Posed by Long-Term Retention Backups

 Preston de Guise  August 23, 2021

Long-term retention backups, if not managed correctly, can represent a bit of a horror situation for businesses — they can…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Best Practice, Long Term Retention  Tagged: long term retention, whitepaper

NetWorker Basics – Rolling your own Savesets

 Preston de Guise  August 16, 2021

Did you know that NetWorker lets you ‘roll your own’ savesets? This functionality gives you a great deal of flexibility in customising your backup configuration to make critical datasets readily identifiable. Here’s how.

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker  Tagged: customisation, Saveset

NetWorker Basics – Virtual Machine Change Rates

 Preston de Guise  August 9, 2021  3 Comments on NetWorker Basics – Virtual Machine Change Rates

If you’re doing image-based backups of virtual machines, it’s useful to see the actual change rate of those virtual machines….

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker  Tagged: Change Rate, Virtual Machine
Dissonance

How do you solve Protective Dissonance?

 Preston de Guise  August 3, 2021

There’s a term in psychology you may have heard of – cognitive dissonance. It refers to having contradictory beliefs, or…

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 Posted in: Backup theory, Best Practice  Tagged: automation, autonomy, evolution, scale, scaling
Holding the cloud

PowerProtect Backup Service for Salesforce

 Preston de Guise  July 26, 2021

Got Salesforce? Then you need PowerProtect Backup Service.

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 Posted in: Cloud, Recovery  Tagged: PBBS, PowerProtect Backup Service, Salesforce, SFDC
Bucket and Cloud

NetWorker Basics – S3 as an AFTD Target

 Preston de Guise  July 19, 2021  1 Comment on NetWorker Basics – S3 as an AFTD Target

There are a few traditional ways you can backup to an S3 target via NetWorker. If you’re in the cloud,…

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 Posted in: Cloud, NetWorker  Tagged: AFTD, Object, S3
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NetWorker Basics – Proxy Redeployment using NWUI

 Preston de Guise  July 13, 2021

NetWorker 19.3 introduced the option to redeploy VMware image-based backup proxies via the NWUI interface. Previously that functionality had been…

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 Posted in: NetWorker, vProxy  Tagged: Deployment, Proxy, upgrade, vProxy

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