Tales from the trenches – Tape
I’m back in a position where I’m having a lot of conversations with customers who are looking at infrastructure change….
Basics – Configuring a reports-only user
Something that’s come up a few times in the last year for me has been a situation where a NetWorker…
Pool size and deduplication
When you start looking into deduplication, one of the things that becomes immediately apparent is … size matters. In particular, the size of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Upgrade times
We live in a world of activities. Particularly in IT, almost everything we do can at some point be summarised as being…
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…