Flash: Accelerated Adoption
As any new technology comes to market, in IT we see the adoption of that technology, as long as it [...]
Tag: "Avamar"
Marketing, FUD and Doing What You Do Best
Rather than leave a lengthy comment on Tom Cook’s blog post from Friday Compression and Dedupe: Business Value and Data [...]
The Myths about Compression and Data Deduplication
How many of you have heard that compression and deduplication just don’t belong together? Like oil and water. I know [...]
Architecting for Recovery
Here is a shocker for you, backup IS a science. Good backup administrators / architects are worth their weight in [...]
The Side Effects of Backup on Server Virtualization
Server virtualization has changed the IT landscape dramatically. It has become a magic potion curing a number of ills in [...]
Storage Switzerland
One of the more thoughtful analysts in the industry, in my opinion is George Crump from Storage Switzerland. (I like [...]
Accelerating Backup Efficiency
EMC's announcement on accelerating your backup efficiency hits some very important concepts to help users make significant progress in solving [...]
Betamax Redux
I often joke w/ customers that when my friends were growing up they would dream of being a professional baseball [...]
Data Protection, Retention and Archive Starts with Data Value
It feels good to open up the blogging again to new topics, especially ones I am intimately familiar with. (But [...]
Storage’s 2010 Hottest Technology
Each year there tends to be one technology that stands out in the storage space. In 2009 it was data [...]
Enterprise Data Protection at the Edge
What does that really mean? When I worked for Veritas, back in 1998 we acquired a company based out of [...]
Comprehensive Capacity Optimization – Deduplication 2.0
Technology is great isn't it? When someone thinks they have a new idea on the same old technology foundation they [...]
A Data Protection Reference Architecture – The Final Chapter
The Architecture This ‘architecture’ diagram, as you can see, is not a typical architecture diagram, but hopefully it can be [...]
A Data Protection Tribute to Michael Jackson
I was walking through the data center the other day when I heard one of my colleagues, MJ “Scream”, “I [...]
Backup Takes Off!
There has been a lot written about the airline industry and its ongoing challenges. Bankruptcies and mergers have been frequent [...]
