Client side compression gets a squeeze
One of the enhancements to NetWorker v8 has been the introduction of additional client side compression options. If you’ve been…
NetWorker 8 Advanced File Type Devices
As mentioned in my main NetWorker 8 introduction article, one of the biggest architectural enhancements in NetWorker v8 is a…
Introducing NetWorker 8
Introduction Those of us who have been using NetWorker for many years know it’s been a long time between major…
The IT organism
Is an IT department like an organism? If you were to work with that analogy, you might compare the network…
The one core problem with deduplication
[Edit- 2015: I must get around to writing a refutation to the article below. Keeping it for historical purposes, but…
FUDtasia
I’m in a training course for a disk-only backup product, and in the introductory material, there’s a distinct message: tape…
Crashplan
Those who regularly follow my blog know that I see cloud as a great unknown when it comes to data…
Healthy paranoia
Are your backup administrators people who are naturally paranoid? What about your Data Protection Advocate? What about the members of…
The problem with VADP
Virtualisation. It’s a fantastic blade to wield through a datacentre. Sweeping and scything, whole racks of equipment are reduced to…
ILP policies vs Backup Policies
This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…