Posted by Mark Campbell
What Are the Consequences of Data Loss? The effects of corporate data loss are not just an annoyance. The consequences of data loss are dire; here is a sampling of just a few statistics related to the...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I got a question this week from a customer about Unitrends deduplication capability (Adaptive Deduplication) in its release 5. The customer asked if we were going to support deduplication to tape....Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Deduplication is increasingly a standard option for disk-based backup (i.e., D2D backup.) (Note: I have to say “option” because so many vendors charge extra for deduplication while other v...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
My mom used to tell me that when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. This simple idiom of course just means that you should take any bad situation and attempt to make it better. The announcement b...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Answer: if you play too long, you lose. I found myself talking to a customer this week about whether they should upgrade their backup appliance. I was talking about all of the sexy new features, lik...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Unitrends offers VMware VADP-level backup protection in its backup appliances beginning with release 5. One of the primary objections to using this for some Windows clients has been what’s kno...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Imagine you’ve won the lottery. The next morning you wake up and find that you won again. That’s how the investors and executives at 3Par are feeling these days. The dueling takeover...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[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...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
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 ev...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
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 ...Read More