NetWorker to the Cloud

Introduced alongside NetWorker 8.2 SP1 is integration with a new EMC product, CloudBoost. The purpose of CloudBoost is to allow a NetWorker…

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One target to rule them all

Introduction It’s true there are some data types that broadly aren’t suitable to sending to Data Domain – any more than they’re suitable for sending to…

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Files and files and files

A while ago, I gave away a utility I find quite handy in lab and testing situations called genbf. If you’ll recall, it…

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New role

I’m pleased to say that on Monday I’ll be starting a new role. While I’ve worked closely with EMC for…

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Basics – Taking a turn about the filesystem

“Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room. — I…

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Upgrade times

We live in a world of activities. Particularly in IT, almost everything we do can at some point be summarised as being…

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Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, v1.1

Today I’m announcing the availability of Turbocharged EMC NetWorker, v1.1. As you can imagine from the version number, this is an…

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World backup day misses the point

It’s fair to say I’m a big fan of backup and recovery. So much so that a substantial part of the…

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Basics – virtual machine names in VBA backups

If you’ve been backing up your virtual machines with VBA, you’ve probably hit that moment when you’ve run an mminfo query and…

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Service catalogues and backups

Service catalogues are sometimes seen as an unwieldy way of introducing order with a substantial risk of introducing red tape.…

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