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By Harald Burose I am writing to you today from HP's Software Universe in Vienna. We gathered more than 3000 customers across Europe. Today is the last day and we have been impressed with the interest in our sessions and traffic at the booth. Independent of economic times, or because of them, people...
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As highlighted in this article , you might be interest in knowing that the European Commission has set an Advisory Panel, including executives from Google and Intel, to help revising the European Union laws on Data Protection: "The aim of the group is to identify issues and challenges raised by...
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By Billy Naples I have been asked to join several customer meetings recently by the StorageWorks Division of HP to discuss the backup and recovery of VMware virtual machines. The customers had one requirement of any vendor, No VCB. If you remember VCB is a snapshot tool for virtual machines called VMware...
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By Harald Burose Last week we had our sales kick off in Las Vegas and in the central Information Management sessions we focused on E-Discovery and the challenges the industry is facing. Challenges like data collection for legal cases taking a considerable amount of time and the ability to preserve and...
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By Brad Vincent We are excited to announce support for HP's new VLS deduplication functionality in Data Protector, which is now available and supported with Data Protector versions 5.5 and 6.0, and HP VLS firmware version 3.1. The 3.1 VLS firmware release is specifically intended for enabling deduplication...
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By Ken Kembry With the recent explosion of the use of VMware there has been a great deal of talk around the best way to back up these virtual machine environments. The question is, do you treat them as standard servers and use a standard backup agent for each virtual machine, or is there a better way...
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By Harold Burose In my last blog, “The Information Management Dilemma”, I wrote about how a backup application can be utilized to address the Information Management and Governance needs of business. I focused on the point that the backup application has a copy of data that can be used for data analysis...
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By Billy Naples I’ve recently returned from another road trip this time to the UK to attend Storage Expo. Storage Expo has traditionally been a great show with high participation. This year the attendance levels were down with exhibitors outnumbering attendees for large parts of the show. Many of us...
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By Rhys Jones To celebrate Halloween and the nightmare season we are offering a US $1,000 shopping spree at the HP online store to the person that tells us the best story of an information disaster. We are interested in hearing about disasters that impacted – or could have impacted – your backup and...
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By Mike Kay It seems like there has been an explosion in 2007-2008 of new software and companies aimed at protecting corporate desktop data. In truth these companies and products were around prior to 2007 but were not much in the news. After digging into this phenomenon I put together a “mind map” to...
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By Brad Vincent Many of you may not be aware that there is an e-Delivery ordering option for Data Protector software products. This makes the ordering process quick, efficient, and eco-friendly -- with electronic delivery of all media, licensing, and documentation for Data Protector software components...
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By Jen Tisevich I’ve listened to our customers, I’ve talked to the press and analysts and there is a constant buzz around certain hot topics in the industry. Virtualization and deduplication are two that probably come to all of our minds. But as I really think on some of the real problems facing businesses...
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By Billy Naples I recently attended VMworld in Las Vegas and thought I’d share my observations here. Whilst on booth duty I met lots of attendees. They all seemed to be either the server admin, storage admin or backup admin. Aside from learning how virtualization was impacting them all in different ways...
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By Ken Olivier A lot has been talked about in the abstract about the need for data protection and disaster recovery. The events of September 12-13 in the Houston area brought reality home. If you haven’t heard by now (not likely!) the Galveston-Houston area suffered a direct hit from Category 2 Hurricane...
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By Harald Burose Not long ago I attended a call with analysts and we were talking about the information management problems customers are facing today. On the one side there is an increased interest in information insights. The line of businesses are interested in any information that will help them...