Sometimes those DBAs seem like they get all the fun – don’t they? Backup Admins never get a chance to be excited about anything, and when they do, DBAs just yawn, or give us weird looks. And to hurt you even more, it seems that database application developers never really think fully about backup and [...] …

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Does Age Matter?

On March 7, 2012 By

I was recently reading an article pertaining to age and athletic ability.  The not so shocking news is that athletes of any level will see a decrease in performance with age.  So yes, age does matter. How does this apply to backup? As I was reading this article it occurred to me that people getting [...] …

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What vendors like CommVault and Riverbed are not telling you.
Cloud Backup works provides a good way for consumers and small businesses to backup their data. However, at enterprise data volumes where primary data sets run in 10s and 100s of TB, traditi…

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Even with the tough economy bearing down on us during the past few years, companies have continued to expand through organic growth and via acquisition.  And while exciting on the surface and in the news (e.g. Company A purchased Company B to DOUBLE SIZE and REVENUES!), we’re often left with significant challenges in the datacenter [...] …

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At the Ignition Partners event in Seattle yesterday, I asked Om Malik what he thought happens to the storage business in this cloud transition. Om’s response was that the $50 billion of gross margin in enterprise storage is ripe for disruption wi…

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StorSimple customers like the fact that our systems do things for them that with legacy storage would take either a lot of time or a lot of money. Sundance Institute, …

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If you want to check out an incredible technology facility, visit the nearest Microsoft Technology Center (MTC). I went to the Mountain View, CA MTC today with my co-worker Burzin Patel and we toured the facility to see what types of customer engageme…

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By Jim O’Connor, Senior Marketing Manager, BRS Division Virtual Tape Libraries have forever changed the landscape in mainframe tape operations. High-performance VTLs can shrink backup and restore times, reduce storage and replication requirements, improve RPO and RTO, eliminate drive contention, prevent lost tapes, and reduce the possibility of damaged tape media by storing data on [...] …

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