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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 give customers about Symantec’s deduplication technology.2.5KViews6likes9CommentsThe Next Big Thing is Already Here
We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space. One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec.Disk-based data backup and tape storage based recovery-Get best out of your tape drives.
Respected forum members, This is my first ever thread. I have tried to make it as informative as possible.This blog is inspired by Curtis Preston's blog .http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/tip/Tape-backup-best-practices-How-to-improve-tape-storage-performance but not copy/paste job.I have used only headings from that article.NetBackup 7 for VMware Virtually Eliminates Backups!
I love a good infomercial. In the short span of 30 minutes, they try to convince me that their product is completely revolutionary and I cannot live without it. They predictably offer to deliver not one, but two for the price of one (S&H charges excluded). I know their claims are exaggerated. I know I don’t need one, let alone two. I am highly skeptical. Yet, I’m sold!353Views4likes3CommentsDeduplication 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 user sophistication. Until about two years back, I used to start my discussions with customers by explaining what is deduplication, what it can do for them, how the deduplication algorithm works etc.257Views4likes0CommentsUnable to start postgresql 8.3 service for MSDP
Hi , I'm using Netbackup 7.5 and just move netbackup to new server and recovered full catalog. After that unable to restart postgresql 8.3 service , Deduplication services and backup is giving 2074 error "storage server is down " Waiting for solution. Thanks , NEERAJ MEHTA937Views4likes3CommentsNew adventures in Disaster Recovery
Probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of some of the newer disk based backup technologies like OST and PDDO is exactly how you use them as part of your site DR strategy, particularly if your DR domain is separate from your production domain.157Views3likes0CommentsCalling all NetBackup customers, we’d love to get your feedback at Vision 2013
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