Hypervisor Direct – Convergent Data Protection

At VMworld, DellEMC announced a new backup technology for virtual machines called Hypervisor Direct, which represents a paradigm that I’d refer…

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NetWorker 9.2 – A Focused Release

NetWorker 9.2 has just been released. Now, normally I pride myself for having kicked the tyres on a new release…

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Cloud Boost vs Cloud Tier

Introduction There’s something slightly deceptive about the title for my blog post. Did you spot it? It’s: vs. It’s a common…

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NetWorker 8.2 SP3

At the start of the week we saw NetWorker 8.2 SP3 released. Now, you might think given NetWorker 9 is out there’s no…

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Who should handle your database backups?

I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…

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2015 – that’s a wrap!

As we approach the end of 2015 I wanted to spend a bit of time reflecting on some of the data protection…

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