Or should I say, ‘Setting the Record Straight on Backing Up Optimized Data’? Carter discusses on this blog they myriad of ways to perform backups on optimized data. (His blog actually reads more like a white paper explaining how backup needs to be configured to work with his product.) One of the ways Carter describes to do backup is via NDMP and says “… is the most complicated.” The funny thing is that this is… Read more »
Confessions of an ex-EMC Blogger
It is an interesting time we live in. In a world where high-tech meets social networking things can run on the hairy edge of information leakage or brand management, especially in a public company. However, during 2008 and 2009, when big companies were trying to figure out what to do within the ‘social media’ fray, I was working at EMC and EMC did a fantastic job of embracing social media and using it to their… Read more »
Storage Tiers - Take 3
I find myself in a true quandary. First, I have true admiration for my good friend and fellow blogger 3Par Farley and never feel comfortable being on the other side of the coin from him. Second, I find myself agreeing, to a degree, with Jon Toigo (who still uses crazy permalinks and considers Novell a serious storage player. What is up with that?).
I’m sure by now most of you all have read… Read more »
The Myths about Compression and Data Deduplication
How many of you have heard that compression and deduplication just don’t belong together? Like oil and water. I know from experience, when I worked for EMC, the Avamar sales reps and the Data Domain sales reps would tell their customers that the best thing to do if they had encrypted or compressed primary data, that they uncompress it to get the savings in their backups that deduplication promises.
This is wrong on a number… Read more »
Enterprise Data Protection at the Edge
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 »