Somebody said something on Facebook about Festivus, and it just seemed appropriate for what I’m going through right now. 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
I went to Fry’s today to buy something for the office, and was just about to pull out my personal MasterCard when I saw the AMEX logo! Click Read More. 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…
I thought I’d do a series of posts over time about little known or unknown features of backup software. First up is TSM and its storage agent feature. 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…
I 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…
I just posted a comment in Scott Waterhouse’s The Backup Blog that I didn’t agree that NetApp was the last major vendor to come out with dedupe. Since that seems opposite to what seems to have happened, click Read More to see why I believe this, and why I think this is important. Written by…
Maybe you were like me when you first read about NetBackup’s Open Storage Option (OST): you were underwhelmed. You also may have been waiting for vendors to jump on it. (It was announced two years ago.) Things have definitely changed since then. In fact, at a recent very large customer that was considering purchasing a…
Most of my recent blog activity has been spent commenting on other people’s blogs. Specifically, vendor blogs. It takes some serious chutzpah, and you have to be very respectful (even if you don’t feel like doing so), but it can be very rewarding as well. This blog entry talks about some of the blogs I’ve…
I was manning the booth at the DRJ conference today when a funny thing happend: the lights went out. Funny, that. 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
NetApp has had an interesting line of data protection products for a long time, including snapmirror, snapvault, snapmanager, and open systems snapvault. What they didn’t have was a centralized place to configure, manage, and report on all those things. That all changed with the release of Protection Manager several months ago. Click Read More to…
The second installment of a Byte and Switch four-part series is out, and it’s full of the same untrue statements found in the first installment. I will say the same thing I said in a comment I made on the first installment: “Is the author completely unaware [of the real facts] … Or is the…