What does that really mean? When I worked for Veritas, back in 1998 we acquired a company based out of Canada called TeleBackup that backed up desktop / laptops. In 1999 Veritas acquired Seagate and the Backup Exec product which also had a desktop / laptop option. These products were meant to eventually be integrated into the main backup applications but never were. Additionally, a lot of that software was given away (hard to make… Read more »
Architecting for Recovery
Here is a shocker for you, backup IS a science. Good backup administrators / architects are worth their weight in gold. CIO’s just wish backup would go away. Backup costs money, it’s not strategic, it chews up man power and when it is 'running' (successfully or not) no one really pays attention to it, but when it fails or more likely when you need to restore data and can't, someone can lose their job -… Read more »
Deduplication - Older than You Think
So I am a big fan of National Public Radio – NPR. Today I learned that yesterday 10/29/09 was the 40th anniversary of the ‘internet’. Now, I am sure there are a number of theories on when the internet was started and who started it, but safe to say that at this time in history 40 years ago, two guys from California sent the first 5 letter message, ‘Hello’, over a wire between two computers… Read more »
Bloody Backup and Archive
Another great post from my colleague Mike Dutch
Many users believe that their backup tapes are their archive as well. Additionally deduplicating storage systems are driving a similar notion that a backup platform and archive platform could be common. Opinions definitely vary on this topic so I encourage all to comment. Let’s take a deeper look…
The reason you “backup" a set of data is because you might need to recover the primary data if… Read more »
The Side Effects of Backup on Server Virtualization
Server virtualization has changed the IT landscape dramatically. It has become a magic potion curing a number of ills in the physical server world such as low individual CPU utilization and excess use of space, power and cooling in the data center. However, like all potions that cure what ails you, there can be side effects. You need to be careful of what the Witch Doctor orders.
When I speak with customers who have aggressively… Read more »