The real deal on the EMC 3D 4000

FacebookXI attended my first SNW conference in over two years last week.  (My previous employer was really good at scheduling me for competing events, so I wasn’t able to go.)  Most of my thoughts about what I saw go hand-in-hand with Don Jenning’s thoughts here.  I agree that it was very cool to see The…

FacebookXI’ve often stated that tape is still cheaper than disk, even after dedupe.  I know that many dedupe salespeople try to tell customers that they’re going to save money by moving from tape to their wonderful deduped disk system; I just don’t see how that is possible.  I’m absolutely convinced that tape is still cheaper,…

FacebookXBackup & Recovery, the long awaited follow up to the very popular Unix Backup & Recovery, shipped today, Jan 5th.  Order your copy now! It's actually a second book, not a second edition, as far more than the title has changed.  The scope of the book has significantly changed, as it now includes Windows, Mac…

FacebookXRoaming the aisles of Dreamforce 2014 taught me one thing: backups are here to stay.  You can move everything you can into the cloud, but your data still has to be protected against natural and human-created disasters.  Moving it to the cloud doesn’t change that. I’ve always felt that way, but I thought for a…

FacebookXI remember when I first started talking to Quantum about dedupe and they were trying to call their “immediate” deduplication “inline” because it’s happening at the same time as backup.  They eventually stopped referring to it as inline, as it does not meet the definition of inline dedupe that was around long before they came…

FacebookXThere have been some interesting options that have recently presented themselves for using deduplicated, replicated backups on a regular basis.  If you’re not familiar with the challenges of using these backups without some help, I’ll explain those first, and then go into the solutions to these problems that are showing up. Update: I’m talking about…