EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup
With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you it’s absolutely imperative that you backup to Data Domain boxes as disk backup...
View Articleappliances vs Appliances
We all have appliances, right? Teapots and toasters and microwaves and automatic coffee machines, etc. They’re all appliances. So are clock radios, electric razors, heaters and fans. They’re...
View ArticleThe virtue of persistence
I have to say, I’m really liking NetWorker’s ability to work with persistent binding on tape libraries now. If you’re not aware of persistent binding, it exists to resolve a problem whereby on some...
View ArticleArrays, auto hot-spot migration and application performance tuning
I’m not a storage person, as I’ve been at pains to highlight in the past. My personal focus is at all times ILP, not ILM, and so I don’t get all giddy about array speeds and feeds, or anything along...
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