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...

"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...
Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) servers unify computing, networking, management, virtualization, and storage access into a single integrated architecture. This unique architecture enables end-to-...
Functional IT professionals value technical training. Whether you are new to the industry and looking to start from the basics, someone who has experience in a competing solution and switching to Syma...
Pop Quiz: The Enterprise Backup and Recovery software market is: Dramatic Controversial In the Midst of an Upheaval All of the Above Yep. This year the industry analysts are acknowledging the most int...
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...
Thanks to everyone who supported my earlier blog on Frequently Asked Questions on NetBackup Accelerator. I have received a number of follow up questions (as comments) in that blog and I had been answe...
In Love With Integrated Backup Appliances By 2017, the purpose-built backup appliance market is estimated to be $6B in size (based on projections from IDC), essentially the same size as the enterprise...
Better Backup for VM Sprawl The following chart is data from IDC data: Two things immediately stand out when looking at this data: 1) VM growth is going to continue into the predicted future (not surp...
I'm very pleased to announce that the FINAL Maintenance Release for NetBackup 7.5 is now available! NetBackup 7.5.0.7 is the seventh (and currently planned to be last) maintenance release for NetBacku...
I was speaking to a customer earlier this week who wanted to get up to speed on our VMware capabilities and needed some basics as well. While I know there have been some great posts in the forums, I t...