With a healthy supply of providers of Back-up in the Cloud eventually customers will desire standardisation and commonality of services. Cloud providers will be facing the same issues in terms of infrastructure choice, functionality, back-up services and customer interfaces. The quality and level of ambition can clearly vary and become the competitive playing field for [...]
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Cloud storage and back-up
Feb 16
Storage in Cloud often refers to back-up which is fair as it accounts for a large proportion of Cloud-storage. Off-site backup is even bigger, but most of this category refers to physical transportation and secure storage of back-up tapes, which is irrelevant to Cloud. However off-site back-up in Cloud is both relevant and growing.
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Confessions of an analyst
Jan 28
First a warning and my confession: don’t click on dodgy web links. I did, and a virus crippled my PC.
Preface:
As an IT analyst, I am always keen to find out smarter ways of using IT in practice. So you often hear wonderful things about new innovation. Someone may say: “aren’t you using XYZ, it is [...]
On January 25 2010, Symantec released new versions of both its main back-up families: Backup Exec and Netbackup. The new releases; Backup Exec 2010 as well as NetBackup 7 goes out on February 1; improved in the areas of de-duplication, server virtualisation and archiving.
De-duplication: Based on the same de-duplication engine (PureDisk) both products offers savings [...]