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We’ve all heard the promises of cloud- and hybrid cloud-based IT infrastructures—agility, availability, and flexibility—pretty much the whole gamut of positive “—ility’s!”  And most of them aren’t far off—properly deployed, a hybrid cloud infrastruct...

I used to be a night operator running “data processing” jobs. The jobs were batch and predominately tape-based (this detail tells you something about my demographics—but I digress). The tapes we used were 2400’ reel-to-reel at a density of 1600 bits...

Once upon a time (I’ve always wanted to start an article with that!) I worked for a company that developed and sold a fault-tolerant computer system. Interestingly, Veritas Technologies—then Tolerant Systems—was one of our competitors.[1] The partic...

Is your organization challenged by long-term data retention? You’re not alone. And with the growing storage demands of unstructured data use cases, this challenge can feel overwhelming. Veritas has developed a solution to efficiently address the long...

Today (10/1/18) marks the release of the 7.4.2 version of Access.  The new release has several new features, but by far the most important of those features is support for NetBackup deduplication on the Access Appliance. Deduplication targets cost-of...