I don’t normally write too much about Avamar. While it’s a great product with some excellent features, my background has…
A small yet nice new feature in NetWorker 8.1 is a limited form of parameter expansion in NetWorker notification action…
Data protection lessons from a tomato? Have I gone mad? Bear with me. If you’ve done any ITIL training, the…
EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…
As is typically the case, EMC and my timing has been a little out of whack. They announced their “backup…
In July 2003, 10 years ago, EMC announced they were buying Legato for around $1.3 billion dollars (US). The acquisition…
The other day I stumbled across a link to an article, Why you should stop buying servers. The title was interesting…
Tape capacity. It should be straight forward, but many people tend to look at only the biggest, most optimistic numbers,…
A long time ago, in a NetWorker far, far away, all the output of a savegroup was included in the…
On one of my lab environments I recently had a problem where the devices (AFTD) on a firewalled storage node…