Will Symantec ship more backup appliances than EMC in 2 years?
The growth trajectory of Symantec’s backup appliance business demonstrates that customers believe in our vision and the value of our solutions. IDC tracks the backup appliance market and calls it the Purpose Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) market. Over the last 3 years, Symantec went from 0% market share to 38% in the Integrated PBBA segment.Defying Convention at VMworld 2013: Designing VMware backups that work!
VMworld 2013 is just a week away. Perhaps this is the one of the biggest technology events where I get to see experts who really get their hands dirty (functional IT staff like system administrators, VM administrators, Storage administrators, solution architects etc.) back in their jobs.World Backup Day: Smarter Backup for IT
Backing up data can often be added to a long list of things you should do more often or more effectively, but aren’t. Things like: flossing your teeth, following a household budget, getting more sleep, etc. Whether you work for a large business challenged by the explosion of data and tighter service level agreements (SLA's), or a smaller to mid-size business, youDeduplication Rates: not the end all.
In the data protection world, a number we frequently see and hear are deduplication rates. We hear of dedupe rates ranging from 50:1, 20:1, to 10:1. Recently, I heard someone say that 50:1 is 5 times better than 10:1. Their fuzzy math made me cringe, and I knew it was time to address this.