(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…
There was a time, comparatively not that long ago, when the biggest governing factor in LAN capacity for a datacentre was…
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
I’ve been working with backups for 20 years, and if there’s been one constant in 20 years I’d say that application…
An integral part of effective data protection is data awareness. You can’t adequately protect what you don’t know about, but…
The LTO consortium has announced: That the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 specifications are now available for licensing by storage mechanism…
When you start looking into deduplication, one of the things that becomes immediately apparent is … size matters. In particular, the size of…
I’m pleased to say I’ve completed and made available the NetWorker usage report for 2014. I’m particularly grateful to everyone who took…
It’s funny, the little tools you build up over the years as someone heavily involved in backup, particularly when it…
Client direct is a (relatively) new feature, introduced in the 8.x series, (8.0 to be exact) which allows for a client…