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
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
Backup and full body scanners would at first blush appear to have little in common – but both involve people being concerned about what other people can see. In the case of full body scanners,...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
“I’m betting that they’re [appliances] are game changers, because the whole premise of these machines goes far, far beyond the no-value concept of simply taking two five-pound bags o...Read More
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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
We have a white paper and webinar entitled “How to Sell Backup to Your CFO.” With the SBA (Small Business Jobs Act) that was signed on September 27, 2010 – it just got a whole lot...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
I gave a webinar today on what is and isn’t a backup appliance and got a great question from someone who participated. We were discussing the difference between a backup appliance and a dedupl...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