Avamar 18.1 – A Stellar Interface

Avamar 18.1 has been out for a while now, so this post is a little tardy, I know. That being…

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Basics – Space Reclamation in Deduplication Storage

Introduction When you’re writing backups to tape, capacity reclamation is pretty straight forward (unless you’re using an archive product that…

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Data Protection Central 18.1

In the huge round of updates in June/July, one of the products you should be using more frequently, Data Protection…

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Basics – Numbers Matter

OK, so here’s the thing for me: I kind of suck at maths. Not so much in a “can’t solve…

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Architectural Considerations – To Storage Node or Not to Storage Node?

As environments scale, so too has NetWorker grown in its ability to scale. The latest version of NetWorker can scale…

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Continuous Data Protection for VMware Virtual Machines

Most businesses these days have a high level of virtualisation within their environments. I’m increasingly seeing environments that have achieved…

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Long Term Retention: Convenient Now, or Later?

“Oxford economics historian Avner Offer believes that we’re hopelessly myopic. When left to our own devices, we’ll choose what’s nice…

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Cross-Cloud Snapshot Management

Introduction There’s a general rule appearing in IT these days. There’s exceptions to every rule of course, but as a…

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Basics – Backup, Archive, and HSM

Backup, archive and HSM are funny old concepts in technology and business. We’ve been doing backup for literally decades, and…

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Why cheaper isn’t cheapest, or best

I want to have a bit of a chat in this post about cheap. In particular, I want to get two…

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