EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup
With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…
The lighter side…
In my spare time I tend to either write, watch a bit of TV or whip out my camera and…
Aside – Adobe Bloatware
My partner for the last 13 years is a graphic designer (and an excellent photographer to boot). As you may…
First thoughts – VMware Fusion 3 vs Parallels Desktop v5
As an employee of an EMC partner, I periodically get access to nifty demos as VMs. Unfortunately these are usually…
Nybbles
If you thought in the storage blogosphere that this week had seen the second coming, you’d be right. Well, the…
Quibbles – The maddening shortfall of ADV_FILE
Everyone who has worked with ADV_FILE devices knows this situation: a disk backup unit fills, and the saveset(s) being written…
Storage Tiering vs ILM
Over at StorageNerve, and on Twitter, Devang Panchigar has been asking Is Storage Tiering ILM or a subset of ILM,…
NetWorker 7.6 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
While still not appearing on the NetWorker compatibility lists, it would certainly appear from testing that NetWorker 7.6 plays a…
NetWorker 7.6 Enhanced Monitoring
One of the features most missed by NetWorker users since the introduction of NetWorker Management Console has been the consolidated…
NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment
While NetWorker 7.6 is not available for download as of the time I write this, the documentation is available on…