Posted by Mark Campbell
What does Karl Marx, Kodak, Research In Motion (RIM), Mitt Romney, and direct backup to tape have in common? Answer: creative destruction. Creative destruction was originally derived from Marx...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Sometimes I get asked about cloud storage gateway vendors and backup. Typically, this is approached in a casual kind of way – primarily because the claims that the vendors make that they can ...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
This is my fourth excerpt from my Don’t Be a Puppet of Your Backup Strategy whitepaper. Click here to download my full whitepaper for instant gratification. It’s free! Virtualization is ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[Image courtesy of the Bart Simpson Chalkboard Wallpaper Generator] Our marketing group forwarded me a note from someone that they sent an e-mail to that read Gosh; my home computer backs up all by it...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[In part 1 of this 2 part series, I gave a brief overview of alternatives to NDMP. In this post, I’m going to discuss in a bit more detail the advantages and disadvantages of each.] Here’...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I got a great question from a person considering different approaches to the backup of a NAS – they asked about alternatives to NDMP for backing up a NAS. Because we service the SMB/SME space,...Read More
Posted by Katie Freedman
Just after lunch on Thursday afternoon, I received an email from Spiceworks entitled, “Isn’t it about time backup became easier?” For those of you who may not be familiar with Spicewo...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
IDC reported in late 2011 that Hyper-V grew 62% in 2011 versus VMware ESX’s growth of 21% (note: Citrix XenServer grew 25%.) Gartner now projects that in 2012 Hyper-V will account for 27% of t...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
Is your Exchange this well-protected? In my last post, I provided an overview of the Exchange data protection architecture provided by Microsoft. If you’re unfamiliar with how VSS-based Exchange...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
In 2009 with Release 4.2, Unitrends re-architected our fundamental approach to protecting Exchange. We also started offering support for Exchange 2010 along with 2007 and 2003. Over the next few blog ...Read More