Mobile IT Lacking Intelligent Protection Mobility has complicated backup and restore for many years. Now Druva claims to have figured out the solution. The problem lies in the combination of networking, bandwidth, backup-hosts and backup-targets. Or rather: restore-hosts and restore-targets, since as we all know: backup is really about restore. Numerous vendors have developed and [...]
Posts Tagged backup
With a healthy supply of providers of backup 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, backup services and customer interfaces. The quality and level of ambition can clearly vary and become the competitive playing field for [...]
Cloud storage and backup
Feb 16
Storage in Cloud often refers to backup 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 backup tapes, which is irrelevant to Cloud. However off-site backup in Cloud is both relevant and growing. Supply [...]
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, [...]
On January 25 2010, Symantec released new versions of both its main backup 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 [...]
This post is about cloud computing (referred to simply as cloud in this post), focusing on storage and content. The entire ITC industry talks cloud, so let me try to give my perspective. For customers the debate, at this stage, can operate safely on a hypothetical level exploring what this buzzword might entail. For people [...]
