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2017 in Review

 Preston de Guise  December 30, 2017

With just a few more days of 2017 left, I thought it opportune making the last post of the year…

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 Posted in: Cloud, Convergent Data Protection, Data Domain, Databases, EMC, General Technology, General thoughts, NetWorker, NVP, Recovery, Security, Site, vProxy  Tagged: 2017, avamar, Cloud Boost, Cloud Tier, converged, convergent, Data loss, DDOS, eCDA, eCDM, hyperconverged, IDPA, Marriage Equality, NetWorker, ransomware

Basics – Prior Recovery Details

 Preston de Guise  December 19, 2017

If you need to find out details about what has recently been recovered with a NetWorker server, there’s a few…

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 Posted in: Basics, NetWorker, Recovery  Tagged: Basics, jobsdb, NMC, nsrreccomp, Recovery

Cloud Snapshot Manager

 Preston de Guise  December 15, 2017

Recently at Amazon re:Invent, DellEMC announced Cloud Snapshot Manager (CSM), the first iteration of an enterprise grade data protection control…

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 Posted in: Best Practice, Cloud  Tagged: Amazon, cloud snapshot, PaaS

The rise of the hyperconverged administrator

 Preston de Guise  December 14, 2017

Hyperconverged is a hot topic in enterprise IT these days, and deservedly so. The normal approach to enterprise IT infrastructure…

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 Posted in: Architecture, Best Practice  Tagged: administration, backup administrator, hyperconverged, management, storage administrator
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NetWorker 2017 Usage Survey

 Preston de Guise  December 1, 2017

It seems like only a few weeks ago, 2017 was starting. But here we are again, and it’s time for…

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 Posted in: NetWorker, Site  Tagged: survey, Usage

What’s new in NetWorker 9.2.1?

 Preston de Guise  November 23, 2017

NetWorker 9.2.1 has just been released, and the engineering and product management teams have delivered a great collection of features,…

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 Posted in: Features, NetWorker  Tagged: NetWorker, update, upgrade

Basics – NMC VMware Viewer

 Preston de Guise  November 22, 2017

As you might have noticed in other posts, I’m a big fan of using NVP (NetWorker Virtual Proxy – also…

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 Posted in: Basics, vProxy  Tagged: NMC, VMware, VMware View

What’s up, doc?

 Preston de Guise  November 21, 2017  1 Comment on What’s up, doc?

If you’re a long term NetWorker user, you might be forgiven for focusing on just a few specific aspects of…

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 Posted in: Documentation  Tagged: documentation, Isilon, Multistreaming, NDMP, Parallel Savesetreams, PSS

NetWorker Success Stories

 Preston de Guise  November 6, 2017

Last month I ran a birthday giveaway competition – tell me a NetWorker success story, and go in the running…

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 Posted in: NetWorker  Tagged: birthday, NetWorker, success

Hypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection

 Preston de Guise  October 10, 2017

At VMworld, DellEMC announced a new backup technology for virtual machines called Hypervisor Direct, which represents a paradigm that I’d refer…

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 Posted in: Convergent Data Protection, Data Domain  Tagged: boost, CDP, convergent data protection, data domain, DPS, hypervisor direct, RecoverPoint, RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

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