Posts Tagged de-duplication

Balesio-Data Reduction; Testing the Solution

Testing Balesio FILEminimizer Suite Feb 25, 2011 Subsequent to writing the blog post below, Balesio made a license key available on FILEminimizer Suite for me to test. Balesio was keen to demonstrate the achievable data reduction ratios. My test targetted my many Microsoft Office files. The software trawled through the files one by one and [...]

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MatrixStore of Object Matrix – A Storage Appliance from Wales

Coming across new European based storage vendors is a rare occurance, but Object Matrix is alive and well based out of Caerphilly in Wales of the UK. The MatrixStore has been produced since 2006 and although it is targeted at the media/post production industry it is a storage system in its own right that will [...]

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Druva and the Quest for Notebook Backup

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 [...]

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Symantec’s double-barrel backup upgrade

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 [...]

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