NetWorker Usage Report for 2016
The NetWorker usage report for 2016 is now complete and available here. Per previous years surveys, the survey ran from December…
Tag: Architecture
Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
Data isn’t data isn’t data
An integral part of effective data protection is data awareness. You can’t adequately protect what you don’t know about, but…
Of accidental architectures
EMC’s recent big backup announcements included a variety of core product suite enhancements in the BRS space – Data…
Rage against the ravine
What’s the ravine? When we talk about data flow rates into a backup environment, it’s easy to focus on the…
Capacity planning – quickly or properly?
When it comes time to consider refreshing the hardware in your environment, do you want do do it quickly, or…
Things not to virtualise: backup servers and storage nodes
Note: It’s 2015, and I now completely disagree with what I wrote below. Feel free to read what I had…