NetBackup Deduplication- FUD vs. Reality
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...
Blog Articles
Optimized Synthetic Backups: Taking the art and science of synthesizing backups to a cut above
The concept of synthesizing full backups from previous full and new incremental backups had been in the industry for a while. The idea is to run incremental backups on client system so that its CPU an...
Buy a NetBackup Appliance or Build My Own?
I was recently asked, “Why would I buy a NetBackup appliance when I could buy the software and cheap JBOD?” Initially, I was taken aback by the question. However, after giving it more thought, I reali...
NetBackup: Hyper-V protection made easy!
Minimize resource consumption on Hyper-V host Symantec NetBackup had been protecting Hyper-V virtual machines since the release of NetBackup 6.5.4. The award winning virtual machine protection technol...
Deduplication Everywhere is a Beautiful Thing
Having personally witnessed the evolution of data deduplication technologies over the years, I can say that deduplication has come a long way both in terms of maturity of vendor offerings, and end use...
How much does a deduplication solution really cost you?
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...
Open letter to EMC: Change your Data Domain licensing model and stop taxing your customers
Deduplication makes disk-based data protection an economically viable and important part of an overall data protection strategy. Unfortunately, EMC customers quickly learn that there is a significant ...
The power of NetBackup Deduplication: Flexibility and scalability
In the last two blogs (see the links below) we covered the cornerstone pillars that make NetBackup Deduplication stand out in the crowded deduplication solutions market. Let us conclude this series wi...
The power of NetBackup Deduplication: Application awareness and global deduplication
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 ...
The power of NetBackup Deduplication: Distributed processing and secure backup streams
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...
