Posted by Mark Campbell
Google announced synchronous replication for Google apps. Of course, Google has a multi-million dollar marketing budget – so they didn’t announce replication, they announced “backu...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
“It’s better to burn out than to fade away.” [Neil Young] VMware announced earlier this week that VCB would no longer be supported in future versions of VMware. The precise commun...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I’ve gotten a few questions from customers about VMware going to ESXi as their strategic direction and what this meant to VMware backup in the future. I promised that I’d post something ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
George Crump does a good job of giving an overview of image- versus file-based backup and the consequences of both in a blog post at InformationWeek (link to the blog post.) Since I work for a compa...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Acronis recently announced a new software-only product that integrates backup and security and is targeted at home users. While not the most original strategy, it should resonate with home and even ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Daniel Lyons at Newsweek has an article regarding Apple “returning to a model that most tech companies long ago abandoned – vertical integration.” The news that prompted the Newsweek...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Talking to IT people, it’s clear that there is tremendous interest in cloud-based backup and storage solutions. For example, a recent survey by a backup company noted that 52% of respondent...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Excellent post over at cloud storage provider Nirvanix concerning the difference between backup and replication (and in this particular case, cloud replication.) I really recommend it; definitely wort...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Bottom line: virtualization doesn’t improve backup and data protection nor does it provide security without a whole lot of help from some type of backup system. Of course, more details will be g...Read More