Asigra is a software company empowering Cloud backup providers. It tells me it is possible to spot the ‘Asigra inside’ reference, but it is very small as the company has been careful not to steal the limelight from its direct xSP customers. When the Y2K crisis broke out and the Telcos had inflated real estate [...]
Posts Tagged CDP
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 [...]
Dell the Challenger
Aug 31
The bid for 3PAR Dell caught the storage world’s attention when it made a bid that eventually got it into a bidding war with HP over 3PAR. At the time of writing the outcome of this battle is not settled, but the acquisitive Dell is squaring up to HP, EMC, IBM and Oracle. The bidding [...]
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, [...]
