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By Harald Burose Recently I talked to an HP consultant about Data Protector version 6.1 and its 8 ways to do virtualized backup. Surprisingly he was only interested in a single one - Snapshot backups on the ESX server. Initially I was very surprised. I asked him: "What about crash consistency of...
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By Billy Naples The last two years have been filled with stories in newspapers and industry magazines about companies losing their most important commodity, their corporate data. It’s the one thing that no other company has or can develop. These stories have varied from lost, or damaged, tape cartridges...
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By André Franklin This is part 5 of a 5 part series on email archiving. In part 4, we discussed the first five of the following seven principles of choosing an email archiving solution: Thoroughly understand your email environment Set clear archiving goals that will still make sense in 5 years or more...
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By Michael Kay This week one of my colleagues at HP had a mishap with his laptop computer: it fell off his lap at a restaurant into a coy pond! Needless to say he was very annoyed. “I got a replacement laptop overnight with a fresh corporate image.” He said. “But all my data from the past month is gone...
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By Jen Tisevich With the massive explosion of information and no signs of this slowing down it’s no wonder that deduplication is one of the most frequent terms being discussed today. As with any new technology that becomes a hot topic, terminology and definitions can get somewhat confusing. Here are...
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By Harald Burose Microsoft Exchange 2007 introduced a list of new possibilities to protect an Exchange environment. With the introduction of built-in replication technologies the menu is getting crowded and as it is with crowded menus the choice becomes more difficult. Like in a restaurant the choice...
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By Michael Kay I had some very good feedback over the past couple of weeks to my blog thoughts about software pricing and licensing. Several readers asked “When is Data Protector going to offer a capacity-based license?” Good question! By “capacity based license” I mean “paying for software based on...
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By Tim Nolte The hot topics in the past few months in the data protection area have included de-duplication, virtual environments and continuous data protection (CDP). I'd like to take a bit closer look in the direction of CDP. A concept with so much appeal, it always makes for an interesting discussion...
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By Patrick Eitenbichler Over the past week I talked to a number of customers and industry analysts to better understand whether backup tapes are kept for just a couple of months or for many years. After all, the specs show that the lifespan of e.g. LTO media is 30 years. To my surprise, I found out that...
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By Harald Burose The industry is talking about backup to disk, de-duplication and virtual tape libraries. However, despite its strong advantages over the other technologies, the topic of disk-based backup is typically underrepresented. Replication-based protection and in particular array-based replication...
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By Mike Kay Last week I wrote about some surprising feedback from an analyst regarding what customers want for virtualized environments. Continuing on the theme of licensing and pricing, I wanted also to share some thoughts about “production” and “non-production” pricing. Many Enterprise IT organizations...
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By Mike Kay This week I had an interesting conversation with an industry analyst who focuses on the virtualization market. While the topic was not specifically about data protection, there were enough opportunities to ask questions that a picture began to emerge. This was very timely for me because our...
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By Billy Naples In a recent planning meeting to organize training for partners I used the acronyms RPO, RTO when a colleague asked, “will they know what that is?” I thought well they had better or else we need new partners. I immediately thought I wish I hadn’t said that. (In all honesty I pretty much...
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By Jen Tisevich As we embark on a new year, amidst economic turmoil, I think it’s interesting to look back at the most important trends of 2008 surrounding backup and recovery. Throughout 2008, market trends surrounding technology infrastructure have pointed toward efforts to lower costs through consolidation...
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By Brad Vincent Anyone familiar with HP Data Protector software already knows that its key advantage over competitors is a great price/performance ratio. With low pricing, simple licensing, and user-friendly installation, Data Protector offers benefits that are especially appealing in these tough economic...