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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Well, it performs – or performance?

We are approaching the point where it would be conceivable for someone to build a PB disk system in their…

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Pumping data

The age-old consideration in backup is the most simple one: how to pump the required data through in the required…

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NetWorker 7.6 Performance Tuning Guide – No longer an embarrassment

While NetWorker 7.6 is not available for download as of the time I write this, the documentation is available on…

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Impact of high speed tape on backup

Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…

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