The truth about the dedupe vendors

FacebookXBackup & Recovery got it’s first official review at linux-tutorial.info.  It got five stars out of five, and calls it a “tour de force.” 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

FacebookXIf you’re serious about cybersecurity, you need to understand the power of a properly configured honeypot server. These deceptive systems have been catching attackers for decades, and they remain one of the most effective tools for detecting both external threats and insider attacks. This blog post summarizes the main points of my latest podcast episode….

FacebookXWhen a client asked me to back up two Synology boxes totaling “about 40TB,” I had no idea I was about to experience the backup from hell. What followed was months of battling failing tape drives, kilobyte-per-second transfer speeds, and the discovery of directories containing millions of files – a perfect storm of everything that…

FacebookXIf you’re still protecting your backup system with just usernames and passwords, you’re practically begging for trouble. Bad actors know exactly what they’re doing – they target backup systems first, and a simple password won’t stop them. Let’s talk about what passkeys are and why they represent a massive upgrade in security. This blog post…

FacebookXI think that the concept that deduplication vendors “rehydrate” data is completely wrong and needs to be abandoned.  This “rehydration” or “reduping” data is blamed for the penalty that some dedupe vendors have on reads, but I think the concept is completely incorrect.  Click Read More to see what I’m talking about. Written by W….

FacebookXEvery once in a while someone talks to a CommVault sales rep that seems to want to classify CommVault as either source dedupe or (at the very least) not target dedupe.  As one of those who does not like ambiguity (except for the whole near-CDP thing), I will explain why I put them firmly in…