2007-06-11
DPM software: Makeover or coverup?
Companies tend to only think of and use DPM software in a singular context – day-to-day operations. For the most part, this software does a good job of monitoring and reporting on the successes and failures of backup jobs, the identification of failed tape drives and the utilization of media in tape libraries. However, this did not raise DPM software’s value proposition much beyond the purview of the day-to-day operations staff.
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2007-06-04
Prepare your business before the storm
Backing up your company's data: good idea.
Lugging a hard drive back and forth between two offices to back up your company's data: bad idea.
It's a lesson Orlando Diaz learned the hard way when he carried an external hard drive between his REDi Mortgage offices in Kendall and Miami Beach, using it as his primary backup and storage system once every two weeks.
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2007-05-30
Before jumping into data de-duplication
Moving de-duplication from the servers to the storage, as NetApp has done, addresses the issue of performance, because the servers' processors are not burdened with the task. But generally, the applications that can benefit most from de-duplication will have the greatest amount of processing issues.
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2007-05-25
EMC upgrades virtual tape libraries
The new EMC Disk Library 6000 series scales up to 1.8PB of usable compressed capacity in a single system and can back up more than 11TB of data per hour. The 6000 series currently offers hardware compression, but users seeking data de-duplication capabilities will have to wait until early 2008, which is when EMC says data de-dupe will be made available across its entire family of disk libraries.
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