Canvassing data protection technology for noteworthy musings. 
NetApp and Syncsort are joining forces to deliver an integrated data protection solution that takes aim at EMC. NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup (NSB) delivers backup and recovery targeting midmarket companies with heterogeneous secondary storage environments. The solution is differentiated by low-impact virtual machine data protection that reduces backup time and provides advanced DR capabilities—all at [...]
Veeam and Vizioncore (Quest Software) seem intent on one-upmanship, especially when it comes to first-mover status for rapid recovery capabilities in VMware environments. Veeam has Instant VM Recovery while Vizioncore has FlashRestore; end-users just care that vendors are focused on rapid recovery techniques. Veeam is taking advantage of VMware snaps to capture VM images and [...]
If you’re like the “mad prophet” Howard Beale from the film Network (of the “I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore” fame), when it comes to managing data availability and recovery, maybe it’s time for a change. That’s what a few vendors, including upstart Actifio, are banking on. For many IT [...]
Chris Mellor at the Channel Register posted an article suggesting that Symantec is delivering its NetBackup PureDisk on an appliance. This got me thinking about the different delivery models vendors choose and what buyers prefer. Does it matter if deduplication is delivered in software or a hardware appliance? We’re still in the early phases of [...]
It was only last week that I posted news about the Dell-Ocarina deal and now IBM has announced its intention to acquire data reduction vendor StorWize. The music is still playing, but there is one less chair. StorWize provides real-time data compression technology to help clients reduce physical storage requirements. Prime use cases for the [...]
Data deduplication, data reduction, capacity optimization … call it what you will, but the end game is to optimize data transfer and storage. The impact on backup/secondary storage has been significant—both for the vendors with the technology and those IT organizations that have deployed it. While the excitement to date has been centered on deduplication [...]
Virtualization and the cloud are creating tremendous opportunities for disaster recovery (DR). Traditional DR presents challenges in planning, implementation, testing, and, importantly, costs. I am seeing, however, some low-cost models leveraging Amazon Web Services with host-based replication solutions from Double-Take. ESG research respondents ranked “improving disaster recovery capabilities” as #1 for data protection spending priorities [...]
When the news broke that NetApp was abandoning future development of its NearStore virtual tape library (VTL) solution, there was much speculation in the industry that VTL had run its course. While the popularity of file-interface disk targets—especially those with deduplication capabilities—has gained, VTLs appear to have waned. Recently published ESG research on The State [...]
After attending NetApp’s analyst day yesterday, my thoughts turned to how NetApp has differentiated itself regarding data protection. Most of the two- and three-letter acronym companies have a data protection portfolio that includes hardware, software, and services—with a few of these large companies scattering the technologies functionally across their organizations and oftentimes presenting a fragmented [...]
Experiencing unexpected downtime kills productivity … as I recently found out with my laptop PC. In addition to the risk of disruption in daily work activities, there’s a risk of data loss if data is not backed up. Like those in place for tsunamis, early warning of pending calamity could prevent a lot of headaches. [...]
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