Posted by Nicole Reineke
Cinderella. Snow White. Hansel and Gretal. VMware host level backup works well with all deduplication strategies. These famous, and not so famous, fairy tales have one thing in common – ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
We got a great question from a potential customer today. The essence of the question was […] does Unitrends have the ability to “locate” the deduplicated files/paths as it runs so that a histo...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Unitrends is supporting byte-level deduplication on its backup appliances with its release 6 (due this month – March, 2010.) Since there’s some confusion concerning byte-level versus block-level...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Deduplication is increasingly a standard option for disk-based backup (i.e., D2D backup.) (Note: I have to say “option” because so many vendors charge extra for deduplication while other v...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
My mom used to tell me that when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. This simple idiom of course just means that you should take any bad situation and attempt to make it better. The announcement b...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Recently Unitrends released a new series of backup appliances and this week is releasing a significant new version of its backup appliance software (Release 5.) Release 5 includes a new D2D2x archiv...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
[If you go to the Unitrends web site, you can find a paper that discusses all of these at greater length.] How to Get Duped by Deduplication: Blindly Believe Data Reduction Ratios In a white paper and...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
How to Get Duped by Deduplication: Ignore the Impact of Encryption Encryption is the process of transforming data to make it unreadable to anyone except those who possess a key that will decrypt that...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
An Overview of Local Versus Global Deduplication with Respect to Backup Earlier it was noted that one way that deduplication device vendors handled some of the shortcomings of their approach was to s...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Overview of Hardware Versus Software Deduplication for Backup (Preface: This section refers to hardware deduplication at the storage device – which is the most common form of hardware deduplica...Read More