Posted by Mark Campbell
[To get things started on this Hyper-V blog, I’m going to take a few of the Hyper-V posts from the Modern Backup blog and reprise them here. Here’s the second of these.] Unitrends now sup...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Spent a few hours the other evening talking to a someone who in our industry about various backup vendors, products, and issues (Yes – you just got insight into what I do for fun. :)) Thi...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
This is the fourth in the series “everybody lies: backup”. You can find the first three installments here, here, & here. The fundamental problem with computer-based systems is that they lose d...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
This is the third in the series “everybody lies: backup”. For the first two installments, see here and here. Back in a simpler time – a few years ago -there were two types of backu...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Over at Spiceworks, I saw this fascinating note from someone who works at another backup vendor: Do lies include a company’s competitive analysis of another company? or is that just considered s...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
The other day I had a potential customer ask me about backup ingest rates (i.e., how fast could a backup potentially be for one of our appliances.) I told her that the fastest the backup could be wo...Read More
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Quest Software announced that it was going private in a $2B management buyout. At the financial level, it’s an interesting transaction: 2.1X Quest’s 2011 revenue of $857M and 1.9X Quest&...Read More
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Instant recovery – also called failover virtualization or virtual failover – is a big deal these days. What these technologies allow is a faster RTO (Recovery Time Objective) by u...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I received a few messages from folks that told me I wasn’t being fair in my assessment of backup, Dell, and AppAssure. Some of these folks are involved in the deal and thus can’t speak pub...Read More
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Answer: AppAssure announced this morning that it had sold itself to Dell. The ripples of this thing into the backup ecosystem are amazing. In this post, I’ll focus on the pure backup ecosyste...Read More