“My operations people want me to move off of VTLs as quickly as possible.” This was something someone said at a recent Dedupe School that I was speaking at in Seattle last week. The person who said this — I’ll call him Greg — happens to work for a very large company that uses well…
In case you haven’t noticed, we finally have a real logo! Thanks to the folks at designcrowd.com for running the logo contest (99 logos were submitted from all over the world!), and thanks to those who helped me decide on the logo by voting. You may notice that the logo I selected was not one…
Jay Livens (@SEPATONJay) wrote a blog post the other day called Will dedicated VMware protection solutions go the way of CDP? I responded with a comment that I couldn’t disagree more about the analogy and its implications. But on further thought, the article did at least make me think, so I thought I’d respond in…
Chris Mellor wrote an article a few months ago that basically predicted the death of tape by 2014. The basis of the article and the prediction was an executive summary of a market analysis report from the Santa Clara Consulting Group, (SCCG), “the leading source of market information relating to the removable data storage industry…
When I first heard of LTFS (the Linear Tape File System) I have to admit my first reaction can best be summed up by this sound bite from Zoolander. With VTLs, we had disk pretending to be tape; now we have tape pretending to be disk!?!! I was reminded of other filesystem-on-removable-media attempts that I’ve…
CDP kind of came and went like SSPs. Some said it stood for “Customers Didn’t Purchase.” Others saw it as the Star Trek of the backup world – a great idea before its time. Written by W. Curtis Preston (@wcpreston), four-time O’Reilly author, and host of The Backup Wrap-up podcast. I am now the Technology…
NEC HydraStor is the coolest product you’ve never heard of. My interest in this product was renewed last week as I watched a dozen hard-core techies salivate when they heard it described, and almost swoon when they saw it demonstrated. As I said in a previous blog, I spent two and a half days last…
I spent two and a half days last week with a bunch of miscreants collected from around the globe (USA, Scotland, Australia, Nigeria, Holland, and — of all places — Ohio). We called it Seattle Tech Field Day, and it was organized by none other than my friend Stephen Foskett (and, of course, his right-hand,…
I’m a gadget freak. i was [at least one of] the first on my block to have a DVD player, a Tivo, a smart phone (before they were called that), a mobile broadband device (Mi-Fi card), a bluetooth headset, a Drobo, and a Netgear Digital Media Receiver. Every one of those devices has significantly changed…
Last week I wrote a blog post about how I noticed that none of the post-process dedupe vendors had published their dedupe speeds. They publish only their ingest speeds. I’m happy to report that my bully pulpit worked and three of them have agreed to publish both speeds, and a fourth is considering it. Written…