Steve Duplessie tweeted today that he thought that SNW was a waste for end-users. Historically I would agree with him, but I thought I’d give the question a fresh look. Sometimes end users ask me, “If you were me and you could only go to one seminar a year, which one would you go to?”…
It’s the biggest thing that’s happened in backup and recovery in a long time. I can’t imagine being “the backup guy” on the other end of this story. Can you imagine the stress of being the last line of defense for gmail? Wow. We all know the story, right? A software update bug caused somewhere…
Tape is still hot, cloud is getting hotter, but companies are still stagnated when it comes to capital purchases, according to a recent survey of 156 IT professionals during the Backup Central Live! seminar series. I purchased an audience response system from Option Technologies for our Backup Central Live! seminar series. (We will be in…
Gmail’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…
Netex is the final company that I’m going to blog about that I learned about on Tech Field Day 5. Their goal is to make it much easier to stream large amounts of data over TCP/IP. Customers using their optimization software (that runs as a virtual machine) are able to fully utilize their WAN connections,…
At Tech Field Day 5, we learned about Druva (formerly Druvaa), who has developed a completely new mobile backup product. Not sure if the world needed another one, I listened closely to how they were going to differentiate themselves. First, I can say that they definitely understood the needs of the mobile backup market. It’s…
Who would’ve thought that I needed to go to Symantec headquarters to learn something about NetBackup and Backup Exec. But learn a few things I did when I visited Symantec’s headquarters last week while attending Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day. I knew that the NetBackup team had been putting a lot of R&D resources into…
I attended Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day 5 last week in San Jose, CA. Once again, there was an impressive array of vendors (both new and existing) that told us all about their products. As I am usually in presenter mode, it was nice to sit back and just listen and watch for a change. …
EMC significantly changed the pricing of their Mozy Home backup service last week. They eliminated their unlimited offering and replaced it with two metered offerings. The first offering is $5.99 a month ($1 more than the previous unlimited offering) for 50 GB and one computer, or $9.99 a month for up to 3 computers and…
I went to Mac World today and there were two products that left me very impressed. One of them was Dolly Drive. They’re an app that makes their cloud storage look like a valid Time Machine drive. You use time Machine just as you always have, but your data is securely copied up to the…