I asked my colleague Daniel Pradelles to give you an update on privacy and data protection at HP. Enjoy reading. Jeannette HP leads the way on the Accountability path… “Privacy and data protection. These words should provide a sense of safety and trust on the personal data processing and...
A month ago I wrote about the 8 ways of protecting VMware that Data Protector 6.1 is offering and I promised to go into detail on each of them. After a month of vacation and travel I finally get to start the series. I want to start with the most basic one - Suspend virtual machine. There are things to...
The Data Protector 6.1 software release in January 2009 provided a number of new features – including the flexibility of eight different methods for protecting and restoring VMware environments. From methods inherent to VMware, such as Suspend VM, ESX snapshot, and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB...
Much is written about the intended business benefits of many products on the market with special attention lately to anything that will help businesses lower costs. The real results are when customers can share HOW they accomplish this with real-life examples. Continental Airlines is a great example...
Economic conditions do not seem to be impacting the continued adoption of backup to disk technologies. In a recent study we commissioned with Forrester Consulting, 90% of enterprises said they were already using backup to disk (56%) or planned to within the next 12 months (34%). With data continuing...
We know that although the economy has slowed, the demands on your business haven’t. Large and small companies alike are finding it harder to make the financial commitments needed to enhance or even maintain their backup infrastructures. While the temptation is to make quick fixes, the fact is, such fixes...
By Harald Burose Remote and branch offices provide a challenge for the backup administrator particularly if there are no IT resources in the remote office. Traditionally a small tape library like an MSL would have been placed in the remote office for backup. Tapes would be taken offline from the library...