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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Why VMware Is Committing Suicide (Whistling Past the Graveyard)

Posted by Mark Campbell I like VMware. I like the company – but more importantly I like the company’s products. But I can see the signs of complacency in the company. Paul Maritz, the CEO of VMware and an ex-Micros...Read More

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Long LBA, 3TB Drives, and Backup Appliances

Posted by Mark Campbell Seagate has a problem. The company is reportedly readying a 3TB drive. However, most systems, and by that I mean both hardware and software, use a technique known as LBA (Logical Block Addressing)...Read More

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Why Smart People Do Dumb Things (Like Not Backup)

Posted by Mark Campbell The title of this post was taken from an article I ran across over the weekend by Guy Kawasaki entitled Why Smart People Do Dumb Things (Like Not Backup their Hard Disk) The post is really less about ...Read More

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VMware and Windows Quiescing for Crash-Consistent Backups

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Long LBA, 3TB Drives, and Backup Appliances

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