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If you thought in the storage blogosphere that this week had seen the second coming, you’d be right. Well, the second coming of Drobo<\/a>, that is. With new connectivity options and capacity for more drives, Drobo has had so many reviews this week I’ve struggled to find non-Drobo things to read at times. (That being said, the new versions do look nifty, and with my power bills shortly to cutover to have high on-peak costs and high “not quite on-peak” costs, one or two Drobos may just do the trick as far as reducing the high number of external drives I have at any given point in time.)<\/p>\n

Tearing myself away from non-Drobo news, over at Going Virtual<\/a>, Brian has an excellent overview of NetWorker v7.6 Virtualisation Features<\/a>. (I’m starting to think that the main reason why I don’t get into VCBs much though is the ongoing limited support for anything other than Windows.)<\/p>\n

At The Backup Blog, Scott asks the perennial question, Do You Need Backup?<\/a> The answer, unsurprisingly is yes \u2013 that was a given. What remains depressing is that backup consultants such as Scott and myself still need to answer that question!<\/p>\n

StorageZilla<\/a> has started Parting Shot<\/a>, a fairly rapid fire mini-blogging area with frequent updates that are often great to read, so it’s worth bookmarking and returning to it frequently.<\/p>\n

Over at PenguinPunk<\/a>, Dan has been having such a hard time<\/a> with Mozy<\/a> that it’s making me question my continued use of them \u2013 particularly when bandwidth in Australia is often index-locked to the price of gold. [Edit: Make that has convinced me to cancel my use of them<\/em>, particularly in light of a couple of recent glitches I’ve had myself with it.]<\/p>\n

Palm continues to demonstrate why it’s a dead company walking with the latest mobile backup scare coming from their department<\/a>. I’d have prepared a blog entry about it, but I don’t like blogging about dead things.<\/p>\n

Grumpy Storage<\/a> asks for comments and feedback on storage LUN sizings and standards<\/a>. I think a lot of it is governed by the question “how long is a piece of string”, but there are some interesting points regarding procurement and performance that are useful to have stuck in your head next time you go to bind a LUN or plan a SAN.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Buzzword Compliance (aka “Yawn”) award goes to this quote from Lauren Whitehouse of the “Enterprise Strategy Group” that got quoted on half a zillion websites covering EMC’s release of Avamar v5:<\/p>\n

“Data deduplicated on tape can expire at different rates — CommVault and [IBM] TSM have a pretty good handle on that,” she said. “EMC Avamar positions the feature for very long retention, but as far as a long-term repository, it would seem to be easy for them to implement a cloud connection for EMC Avamar, given their other products like Mozy, rather than the whole dedupe-on-tape thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(That Lauren quote, for the record, came from Search Storage<\/a> \u2013 but it reads the same pretty much anywhere you find it.)<\/p>\n

Honestly, Cloud Cloud Cloud. Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud. Look, there’s a product! Why doesn’t it have Cloud!? As you can tell, my Cloud Filter is getting a little strained these days.<\/p>\n

Don’t even get me started on the crazy assumption that just because a company owns A and B they can merge A and B with the wave of a magic wand. Getting two disparate development teams to merge disparate code in a rush, rather than as a gradual evolution, is usually akin to seeing if you can merge a face and a brick together. Sure, it’ll work, but it won’t be pretty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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