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What if Cloud-Backup-Storage was Free?

Not Backup-as-a-Service, but just cloud-storage that could be used to supplement a backup. Sure, there are a lot of STaaS (storage-as-a-service) folks that will give you a small amount of capacity to try their platform, knowing full well that you… Read more

Cloud-powered, Quantum, Storage

August 16, 2014
Video summary of Disk-Based Backup Target Systems

A few months ago, ESG completed its research on Disk-Based Backup Target Systems – the storage platforms that data protection solutions are often built upon. The nice folks in ESG’s video team were kind enough to help me record some… Read more

Deduplication, Dell-EMC, Exagrid, HPE, IBM, NetApp, Quantum, Research Findings, Sepaton

August 12, 2013
The term PBBA is overused and often incorrect

There are some who would refer to optimized disk-based target devices that are optimized for as Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs), but that term is actually misleading. When one refers to a “backup server,” the implication is that the server performs… Read more

Appliances, Backup-to-Disk, Dell-EMC, Exagrid, HPE, NetApp, Quantum, Sepaton

May 22, 2013