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Need Help with WinSvr 2012 Storage Spaces
Howdy MS friends, I used to be a fan of Windows Server 2012’s Storage Spaces: http://blog.jasonbuffington.com/index.php/2013/06/checking-out-my-newest-storage-appliance-for-under-2000/ And for those that don’t know, I used to work at MS … on Windows storage features. But I am totally stuck – and… Read more
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You have one less way to recover your data – and you probably didn’t realize it
BE AWARE that today’s laptop and mobile devices have one less recovery option than they used to. This particular customer service announcement is targeted mostly at business executives and the IT professionals who support them. - Those folks presume… Read more
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New ESG Research on BaaS, DRaaS and Tertiary
These days, you can’t have a discussion on modernizing your IT infrastructure without talking about “cloud” … but when it comes to Data Protection, there isn’t just one kind of Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS). In fact, most folks… Read more
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The Spectrum of Data Protection
It is interesting to me how marketing folks and technical purists banter IT terms around, in hopes of sounding fresh and compelling to their customers. While “backup” is often thought of as passé or the bane of IT operations, “data… Read more
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My newest Storage Appliance for under $2,000
After 22+ years in backup, I have become something of a storage geek on the side (or at least pretend to be one). Over the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with a new storage solution in my Dallas lab:… Read more
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Snapshots vs. Backup – a great debate, no longer
It wasn’t that many years ago that “snapshotting vs. backup” had the same kind of fervor in IT debates that some American political discussions have today, or religion, or any other media-infused divisive issue. Sidenote: my favorite of these incite-ful… Read more