Tag Archives: Backup

EMC NetWorker 7.6 SP1 surfaces

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Ray

This week EMC releases NetWorker 7.6 SP1 with new Boost support for Data Domain (DD) appliances which allows NetWorker’s storage node (media server) and the DD appliance to jointly work on providing deduplication services.  Earlier this year EMC DD announced the … Continue reading →

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Cloud storage, CDP & deduplication

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Ray

Somebody needs to create a system that encompasses continuous data protection, deduplication and cloud storage.  Many vendors have various parts of such a solution but none to my knowledge has put it all together. Why CDP, deduplication and cloud storage? … Continue reading →

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Backup is for (E)discovery too

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Ray

There has been lot’s of talk in twitterverse and elsewhere on how “backup is used for restore and archive is for e-discovery”, but I beg to differ. If one were to take the time to review the EDRM (Electronic Discovery … Continue reading →

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Problems solved, introduced and left unsolved by cloud storage

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Ray

When I first heard about cloud storage I wondered just what exactly it was trying to solve. There are many storage problems within the IT shop nowadays days, cloud storage can solve a few of them but introduces more and … Continue reading →

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Protecting the Yottabyte archive

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Ray

In a previous post I discussed what it would take to store 1YB of data in 2015 for the National Security Agency (NSA). Due to length, that post did not discuss many other aspects of the 1YB archive such as … Continue reading →

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Sidekick's failure, no backups

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Ray

I believe I have covered this ground before but apparently it needs reiterating. Cloud storage without backup cannot be considered a viable solution. Replication only works well if you never delete or logically erase data from a primary copy. Once … Continue reading →

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What if there were no backup?

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Ray

If backup didn’t exist and you had to start over to protect your data how would you do it today? I think four things are important to protect data in today’s data center: Any data ever created in the data … Continue reading →

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