The truth about the dedupe vendors

FacebookX The FCC gives discounts to schools and libraries if they want to buy a tape-based backup system, but not if they want to use disk or any type of cloud-based architecture. No, this is not me saying this is an example of how tape is better.  It’s me, an American citizen expressing frustration at…

FacebookXOn my LinkedIn profile, I posted a link to my last article, Why good dedupe is important — and hard to do.  I got some pretty good feedback on it, but one comment from my buddy Chris M. Evens (@chrismevans) got me thinking. “Curtis, it’s worth highlighting that space optimisation may not be your only…

FacebookXGmail’s outage today made me think about something I’ve had in the back of my brain for a while.  While I’m a big fan of the cloud (as long as it makes sense for you), one of the things we say is that you can outsource the management of your data, but not the responsibility…

FacebookXI’m reversing a long-standing position of mine, and people who know me know I don’t do that sort of thing very often.  (My wife would tell you I never do.) Typical backup software installs an agent on each system to be protected.  Agentless backup gets the job done without installing agents, choosing instead to log…

FacebookXFans of Exchange’s Single Instance Storage feature will be sad to know that is gone as of Exchange 2010.  That’s right.  Gone. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology Evangelist at S2|DATA, which helps companies manage their legacy data

FacebookX[This story originally happened in 2007, but I just learned about it, so I blogged about it.  Then I learned that it was a four-year-old story.    Everything here still applies, even if the actual story is old.  But I did re-edit the story and change it’s title because the original wording seems a bit…