Smartphones and Backup
What was your reaction when you got your first phone call on a smartphone? If you’re like me, it was something like: "Oh yeah, this makes sense. The caller’s name appears on the screen. My music stops...

What was your reaction when you got your first phone call on a smartphone? If you’re like me, it was something like: "Oh yeah, this makes sense. The caller’s name appears on the screen. My music stops...
NetBackup Accelerator is an exciting feature introduced in NetBackup 7.5 and NetBackup Appliances software version 2.5. This blog is not a substitute for NetBackup documentation. NetBackup Accelerator...
If you are evaluating dedupe solutions, the dedupe ratios claimed by dedupe vendors are bound to intrigue you. I have seen claims of dedupe rates as high as 50:1 and I am sure there are claims of even...
When Lisa Graff, VP/GM of Intel’s Platform Engineering Group took the stage at a special event during SC ’11 Super Computing Conference in Seattle, I was not the only one who had wondered why the new ...
With the one-two punch of an earthquake in the Mid-Atlantic US followed closely by a hurricane potentially hitting the same region, Disaster Recovery is probably a popular discussion right now in the ...
IDC defines(1) a purpose-built backup appliance as a disk-based solution that utilizes software, disk arrays, server engine(s), or nodes that are used for a target for backup data and specifically dat...
In my current role at Symantec, I spend a lot of time talking to customers about their data protection strategies. It is interesting to note how much misinformation some of our competitors continue to...
There are a number of deduplication solutions from various vendors available for you to choose from. There are plenty of discussions about various kinds of deduplication solutions and how those help t...
In the previous blog in this series (see links below) on Power of NetBackup Deduplication, we talked about two special powers of NetBackup deduplication, viz. how dedupe processing can be distributed ...
Data deduplication is the most popular form of storage capacity optimization. Deduplication makes it possible to store more on disk with less backend storage, hence it is a very promising method to el...