Data Loss Shortcuts: Ignore Hardware Failure

July 6, 2010

[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective links to get the white paper or to get access to a pre-recorded webinar (or sign up for a [...]

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What Causes Data Loss?

July 5, 2010
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[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective links to get the white paper or to get access to a pre-recorded webinar (or sign up for a [...]

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What Are the Consequences of Data Loss?

July 4, 2010
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[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective links to get the white paper or to get access to a pre-recorded webinar (or sign up for a [...]

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VMware Corporate Suicide Revisited: Reader’s Comments and Whether Hyper-V, Xen, KVM and Others Are Really Ready for Prime Time

June 23, 2010

The best subtitle for this continuing discussion about the merits of various “free” hypervisors would be the famous quote: the truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.  An even better subtitle might be a “modest proposal: why VMware should enact a 50% or greater license fee on all backup and [...]

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Novell and VMware Virtualization (and Backup)

June 13, 2010

What the heck is Novell and VMware announcing?  At first read, it would appear to be a lot of sound and fury, signifying very little.  Novell is announcing it will support SUSE/SLES as a guest in a VMware virtual machine with a little bit of SAP migration from UNIX brought into play.  These aren’t that [...]

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What Is a Backup Appliance?

June 12, 2010

What’s a Backup Appliance? The concept of a backup appliance is rooted in the same idea as your toaster.  Your toaster has one job – it toasts.  In this same sense, a backup appliance has one job – it performs backup.  More precisely, a backup appliance functions more generally as a data protection appliance.  A [...]

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Backup and Church of the Customer

June 11, 2010

Yesterday got this in an e-mail from a buyer evaluating one of our backup appliances: GOD I LOVE THIS THING! That’s the response we live for — it doesn’t get any better than that.

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Why VMware Is Committing Suicide (Whistling Past the Graveyard)

June 7, 2010

I like VMware.  I like the company – but more importantly I like the company’s products.  But I can see the signs of complacency in the company.  Paul Maritz, the CEO of VMware and an ex-Microsoft executive, should know better than anyone the dangers of complacency when the person in your rear view mirror is [...]

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Exchange 2010 and Single Item (Granular) Recovery

June 6, 2010

This short post summarizes a superb article on Exchange 2010 and single item recovery. The bottom line of the article is that with Exchange 2010, you shouldn’t need to do single item recovery (also called granular recovery) from a secondary (or backup) medium.  If I were an IT administrator, I know that I’d want to [...]

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Long LBA, 3TB Drives, and Backup Appliances

June 6, 2010

Seagate has a problem.  The company is reportedly readying a 3TB drive.  However, most systems, and by that I mean both hardware and software, use a technique known as LBA (Logical Block Addressing) to address the blocks on a disk drive.  LBA is capable of addressing a maximum of 2.1TB.  LBA was created originally decades [...]

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