Posted by Unitrends
I ran across this claim today – “ran across” means that Google decided that they should serve an advertisement to me while I was doing some web searches. I was interested (I...Read More
Posted by Unitrends
I don’t want to date myself, but I remember getting an upgrade to a 20MB hard drive in my PC. I thought, “Oh boy, I’ll never fill this thing up!” It blows my mind now to think about that now. ...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
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
Posted by Mark Campbell
[In part one of this blog post I talked about backup and global deduplication for backup appliances. In this section I’m going to offer an alternative way to think about the problem.] Most f...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
I was recently speaking to a buyer about backup and global deduplication. Basically, I was told that global deduplication was a hard requirement (what we sometimes call a KPC – Key Purchase Cr...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
[This is the fifth excerpt from my How to Sell Backup to Your CFO whitepaper.] It is the nature of every technology industry to tout its features and promote the attributes of its offerings. The dat...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
[This is the fourth excerpt from my How to Sell Backup to Your CFO whitepaper.] Optimizing capex (capital expenditure) is the foundation of optimizing for productivity. With the advent and growing pen...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
[This is the third and last excerpt from our Six Fairy Tales of VMware and Hyper-V Backup whitepaper.] One of the more prominent fairy tales floating around is that Hyper-V host-level backup is effici...Read More
Posted by Nicole Reineke
[This is an excerpt from our Six Fairy Tales of VMware and Hyper-V Backup whitepaper.] A couple of days ago, I discussed the fairy tale that VMware host-level backup works with all VMware host environ...Read More