Posted by Mark Campbell
Backup and Deduplication Concepts: Encryption and Physical Storage Density and Pricing The next post in a series on customer-focused issues associated with deduplication and backup. Encryption Encrypt...Read More
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A post concerning compression/deduplication and backup definitions I wrote yesterday received a great comment noting that I was “playing with words” concerning compression and deduplicatio...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Backup Concepts: Compression and Deduplication There’s a lot of confusion concerning deduplication. In this post I’ll discuss two primary data reduction concepts: compression and deduplication. ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
When You Don’t Need Backup: Exchange Hard Deletes and Soft Deletes Understand the difference between a hard delete and a soft delete. Store Soft Delete: A deleted item has been taken from the de...Read More
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Got a question earlier today about the Unitrends Vault2Cloud disaster recovery service (which works with our all-in-one backup and archiving appliances) and what tier data center we’re using. ...Read More
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I’m not sure if it’s $0.49 per protected gigabyte or my sparkling prose (although I’m betting on the former), but the the backup cloud post I previously made has proven so popular (i...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[This is a more detailed post that explores some of the concepts first discussed in the post Backup, Deduplication, and Incremental Forever] Storage-based deduplication, particularly with respect to b...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Quantum announced recently that they were releasing the first tape products based on the fifth generation of Linear Tape-Open technology (LTO-5.) Thus the long wait of many tape backup users for LTO...Read More
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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