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What Are the Consequences of Data Loss?

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Data Protection
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Backup, Primary Deduplication, and Solaris ZFS

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Deduplication
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Data Domain Boost Software – When Life Hands You Lemons, Sell Lemonade

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Backup Appliance, Deduplication
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What Does Russian Roulette and RAID-5 Have in Common?

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Backup Appliance
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VMware and Windows Quiescing for Crash-Consistent Backups

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged VMware
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3Par, HP, Dell, Private Clouds, and Disaster Recovery

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Cloud, Disaster Recovery
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What Causes Data Loss?

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Customers, Data Protection
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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

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 in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Hyper-V, Linux, Virtualization, VMware, Windows, XenServer
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Novell and VMware Virtualization (and Backup)

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
Posted in Backup, Old Posts, RecoveryTagged Hyper-V, Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat Linux, Virtualization, VMware, XenServer
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What Is a Backup Appliance?

Posted by Mark Campbell 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 ha...Read More
Posted in Backup, Old PostsTagged Backup Appliance

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