A Brief History of Backup
"Study the past if you would define the future." – Confucius A lot has changed in the backup industry over the past two decades. In honor of World Backup Day, we thought it might be fun to take a look...
Blog Articles
Looking for the Right Data Backup Solution for the Virtual World? Ask Yourself These Three Questions
Backup is like an insurance policy. You want it for the peace of mind, but you don’t want it to dominate your workday (also, nights and weekends!). You need to protect data on your virtual machines to...
What IS an Agile Data Center?
My previous blog spoke to the concept of an "Agile Data Center," a model that customers tell us represents their future. Most organizations sit in some (or many) parts of it and are searching to move ...
Defying Convention at VMworld 2013: Designing VMware backups that work!
VMworld 2013 is just a week away. Perhaps this is the one of the biggest technology events where I get to see experts who really get their hands dirty (functional IT staff like system administrators, ...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Infinite Scalability!!!
One of the things that weigh on an IT director’s mind is how he/she can keep up with their company’s growth in the data center. These areas include server growth, application growth, bandwidth and net...
Taking VMware vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to the Limit: Pushing the Backup Performance Envelope
VMworld 2012 in San Francisco has come and gone. VMworld EMEA in Barcelona is next week. It is a great event for technical audience; filled with numerous educational sessions, the largest solution pav...
Nuts and Bolts in NetBackup for VMware: Virtual machine snapshots for backing up Business Critical Applications?
Recently, there were discussions in social media and blogs on using hypervisor level snapshots on virtual machines hosting business critical applications like Microsoft Exchange. Some confusion came o...
