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Happy World Backup Day (early)
How are you celebrating World Backup Day? You have it on your calendars for March 31 (Saturday), right? Are you testing your Disaster Recovery solution over the weekend to ensure you can resume service? Remember, if it doesn’t get tested,… Read more
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The day I discovered Acronis
A few weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my laptop with an SSD primary disk – and along the way, I discovered the magic that is Acronis. It was supposed to be a trivial upgrade. Especially for a guy who… Read more
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Symantec offers Better Backup for All
Today, Symantec held live events covering the upcoming BackupExec 2012 and NetBackup 7.5 releases. According to Symantec, “Backup is broken” (I agree). And they intend to be the fix. Enrique Salem, Symantec CEO, started by offering “Every year, I stand… Read more
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CommVault Simpana now offering “One Pass”
Today, CommVault is holding a virtual event to announce some of its latest innovations for the Simpana 9.0 product. I had the opportunity to do some early hands-on testing of a few of the new capabilities during an ESG Lab… Read more
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Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery
[originally posted on my ESG blog – TechnicalOptimist.com] It wasn’t that many years ago that ‘Disaster Recovery’ was a key buzz word for IT. Somewhere along the way, it became ‘Business Continuity’. Now days, it is simply a feature of… Read more
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ESG Lab Validation – EMC VNX Total Protection Pack
One of the coolest parts about going from a single-vendor to ESG has been the chance to see IT from a broader perspective. As a long-time ‘software-guy’, this was a chance to re-discover the power of hardware, particularly as it… Read more