7 common problems with deduplication

In an earlier article, I suggested some space management techniques that need to be foremost in the minds of any…

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Auditing should be done only by the experts

I’ve said it before – auditing should only be done by the experts. I first realised this when a security…

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Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning

I’m not a storage person, as I’ve been at pains to highlight in the past. My personal focus is at…

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How indispensable is your company?

A wise man once said in a meeting: If you want to see how indispensable you are, stick your finger…

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The risk of change

Your backup server is behaving perfectly normally, but you want to do one minor change to it. For example, you’ve…

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You’re not the boss of me

Consider the following two questions: Do you manage your backups, or do your backups manage you? Does your organisation decide…

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Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix

In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…

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NetWorker Usage Survey, June 2011

It’s that semi-annual time of the year again when I ask you to take a few minutes to answer some…

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This is wrong

In “Distribute.IT reveals shared server data loss – News – iTnews Mobile Edition” (June 21, 2011), we’re told: Distribute.IT has…

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Technology is not the solution

Earlier in the year, I wrote a post, “Technology is rarely the issue“. In that post, I said: As techos…

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