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Priorities Change

I'm highlighting another improvement that debuts in NetBackup 6.5.2. You have been able to set priority levels in NetBackup for a long time. The priorities could be set for a policy or for a particula...

Four Days until Vision - Las Vegas

There are four days until Symantec Vision 2008 in Las Vegas. I'll be presenting with Erica on the topic of Simplifying Backup Management on Tuesday with a repeat performance later in the week. If you ...

Cool New Blog Site

Guy Kawasaki the famed Apple evangelist, author, speaker, venture capitalist and one of my role models is involved with a new start-up web site called alltop.com. He recently added enterprise.alltop.c...

6.5.2 Changes Coming Soon

In the next few weeks I’ll be previewing some of the new things in NetBackup 6.5.2. I am purposely highlighting a few things which I think are neat but might ordinarily not make the press release leve...

Interview - Curtis Preston

Today I have the pleasure of interviewing Curtis Preston aka Mr. Backup. Curtis works at GlassHouse Technologies and is a well known consultant, author, speaker and expert on the topic of enterprise b...

Setting and getting exclude/include lists without bpgp

There was a lot of excitement generated by my bpgp comments a few weeks ago. I took your concerns seriously and investigated some options for managing the include and exclude lists. Although we’re not...

19 Days until Vision

There are 19 days until Symantec Vision 2008 in Las Vegas. I'll be there and am hoping to meet lots of you. If you are hyper-connected like Joe and I you'll be able to check out the conference in some...

Could Dedupe Be in the News Again

Jon Toigo writes a blog call Drunken Data. He recently put out a call for dedupe vendors to answer a few questions. You can read some of the unedited vendor submissions, including one for our own prod...

Designing Backup Around SLA's

I came across this article on SearchStorage.com talking about creating service level agreements in data protection: Greenberg laid out a two-step process to setting up the SLA. The first step involves...

Demystifying OpenStorage

I’ve always been a lurker when it comes to blogging, posting videos of myself on YouTube, or social networking sites. Secretly I imagine myself running for public office and having my opponent drag ou...

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