Architecture Matters: Protection in the Cloud (Part 2)

(Part 1). Particularly when we think of IaaS style workloads in the Cloud, there’s two key approaches that can be…

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Architecture Matters: When you dedupe

There was a time, comparatively not that long ago, when the biggest governing factor in LAN capacity for a datacentre was…

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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…

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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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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…

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LTO-7 and the Streaming Conundrum

The LTO consortium has announced: That the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 specifications are now available for licensing by storage mechanism…

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Pool size and deduplication

When you start looking into deduplication, one of the things that becomes immediately apparent is … size matters. In particular, the size of…

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2014 NetWorker Usage Report

I’m pleased to say I’ve completed and made available the NetWorker usage report for 2014.Ā I’m particularly gratefulĀ to everyone who took…

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Not so squeezy

It’s funny, the little tools you build up over the years as someone heavily involved in backup, particularly when it…

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Understanding Client Direct

Client direct is a (relatively) new feature, introduced in the 8.x series, (8.0 to be exact) which allows for a client…

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