Archive for February, 2009

SEPATON Performance — Again

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Scott from EMC has challenged SEPATON’s advertised performance for backup, deduplication, and restore. As industry analyst, W. Curtis Preston so succinctly put it, “do you really want to start a ‘we have better performance than you’ blog war with one of the products that has clustered dedupe?” However, I wanted ...

W. Curtis Preston Now with TechTarget

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

About a week ago, Curtis posted on his blog that he is joining TechTarget as an Executive Editor which essentially means that he will continue to present at various events. He is still an independent consultant and can keep working on his other projects including his Mr. Backup Blog and ...

TSM Deduplication

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

IBM recently announced the addition of deduplication technology to their Tivoli Storage Manager (ITSM) backup application. ITSM is a powerful application that uses a progressive incremental approach to data protection that is completely different from most other backup applications. The addition of deduplication to ITSM provides a benefit ...

SEPATON Announcement

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

SEPATON recently announced fourth quarter results in this release. I am not going to repeat the content here, but wanted to highlight that the company had a record Q4 and achieved an important milestone. I am excited about the prospects for SEPATON in 2009. Don’t get me wrong, 2009 ...

IBM Deduplication Appliances

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I have been on hiatus as of late and apologize for my tardiness in blogging. IBM released their new deduplication applications based on the technology they acquired from Diligent. At first glance, it might appear that this could be a competitive alternative to SEPATON, but when you look at it, ...