What’s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.13?

PowerProtect Data Manager version 19.13 was released at the end of March, and so it’s time to have a look…

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Dynamic NAS Protection

NAS is one of those platforms that presents operational challenges for backup and recovery, simply because the operating systems are…

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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 – Revolutionary Protection for VMware

Introduction In Casino Royale, Vesper Lynd says to James Bond, “There are dinner jackets and dinner jackets; this is the…

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Basics – NetWorker AFTD on NAS

Someone recently asked me about using NetWorker to backup to a NAS, and how easy it would be to then…

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I Never Doubted My Protection

Network Attached Storage – NAS. It’s such an interesting beast, because it provides an easy solution for file storage within…

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ILP policies vs Backup Policies

This post has moved to the Enterprise Systems Backup blog, and can be accessed here. Related posts: Think backup belongs…

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Arrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning

I’m not a storage person, as I’ve been at pains to highlight in the past. My personal focus is at…

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appliances vs Appliances

We all have appliances, right? Teapots and toasters and microwaves and automatic coffee machines, etc. They’re all appliances. So are…

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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…

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Should you use NAS for disk backup?

Over at SearchStorage, there’s an article at the moment about using NAS disk as a disk backup target – i.e.,…

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