By Tim Nolte, HP Information Management Product Marketing Manager, EMEA For those of you who haven’t seen it yet, the web-based tutorial for HP Data Protector Synthetic/Virtual Full Backups can be found in the Data Protector section of the IM Digital Hub at www.hp.com/go/imhub , or you can click here...
By Jen Tisevich On Wednesday, September 17th from 9 am – 5 pm EST, HP's Data Protector team will participate in its first ever virtual seminar, hosted by TechTarget. The event will showcase virtual vendor booths and a keynote session by industry expert W. Curtis Preston of Glasshouse Technologies...
By Andreas Schwegmann Why do cars consume so much fuel? Why does IT consume so much power and money? The answer is simple. Both are oversized to protect what they have been built for. Cars are built for humans who cannot even withstand a crash at low speeds without proper protection by the car. In case...
By Billy Naples A couple of weeks ago I did a bit of a Data Protector World Tour. The trip took me to Bristol, England, (home of HP tape drives), London, England, Dublin, Ireland and Boeblingen, Germany. The last stop was the most interesting bit which is why I have chosen to discuss it here. Boeblingen...
By Brad Vincent We are excited to announce a change to the HP Data Protector software Advanced Backup to Disk licensing scheme. With the continued growth of data reduction technologies such as de-duplication, this new licensing scheme will make disk backup more cost-effective than ever before. Here are...
By Mike Kay At a recent storage conference I overheard two vendors on the show floor passionately arguing the merits of "Archive first, then backup" and "Backup can be an archive." After a while it was clear that each person had their own definition for "backup" and "archive...
By Jen Tisevich Missouri State Courts recently underwent a consolidation effort to centralize 40 remote circuit court databases. Plagued by ineffective backups of geographically dispersed servers and nightly downtime of their Case.net databases, the customer also tackled a major upgrade of its backup...
By Harald Burose Yesterday I saw a webcast about virtualized environments and how to protect them. Luckily the webcast was only 20 min long but it reminded me that I promised to write about replication and backup of virtualized environments. Jennifer shared some common practices about data protection...
By Jennifer Tisevich We are all well aware of the rapid explosion of data, spanning both our professional and personal lives. In the business environment, one of the key technologies being deployed today to optimize resources and better manage this growth is server virtualization. According to Gartner...
By Harald Burose Network backup and recovery products have been around for more than a decade. Yet this area keeps evolving continuously. In this Data Protection blog on the HP Software Information Management site we will not only cover new innovations in the data protection market and trends that we...