Archive for the ‘Restore’ Category
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
The rumors of the demise of COPAN were rampant in late 2009. There was broad speculation that general operations had wound down and that the company was maintaining a skeletal staff. It was clear that COPAN's end was near and the management team was scrambling for an exit strategy. Most ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
This blog primarily focuses on protecting corporate data, but I recently received a call from my father that reminded me of the criticality of protecting personal data. My father called expressing frustration that his laptop hard drive had failed and corrupted his data. Fortunately, he had backup copies of his ...
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
A recent tweet by Chris Mellor from The Register caught my eye. He highlighted IBM’s recent development of a 35TB tape. Here are four articles on the topic:
Engadget
FUJIFILM Announcement
The Register Article
A blog post by Robin Harris at ZDnet
My thoughts
It is interesting to see IBM/Fuji driving tape development. With this ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
The latest scary backup story comes from a firm called Danger that makes the Sidekick PDA/phone. The Sidekick stores the majority of its data in a central data center and the data is loaded each time to the phone is restarted. The idea is that the data center provides ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Chris Mellor (twitter:@Chris_Mellor) recently posted an article over at The Register about LTO-5 entitled Is LTO-5 the last harrah for tape?. He makes an interesting point about the future of LTO and whether LTO-5 will be the last generation of the technology. Most of the comments on the article disagree ...
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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
I was recently reading this document from CommVault that highlights their deduplication technology and was surprised by their use of the term “forward referencing”. Forward referencing is a common term in deduplication with a generally agreed upon definition. CommVault appears to have redefined the word and promoted their version as ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
W. Curtis Preston recently blogged about The Rehydration Myth. In his post he discusses how restore performance on deduplicated data declines because of the method used to reassemble the fragmented deduplicated data on disk. He also addresses the ways various technologies attempt to overcome these issues, including disk ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
One of the questions I often get asked is “how do your products compare to Data Domain’s?” In my opinion, we really don’t compare because we play in different market segments. Data Domain’s strength is in the low-end of the market, think SMB/SME while SEPATON plays in the ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
W. Curtis Preston recently wrote an article on the state of physical tape for SearchDataBackup. He talks about the technologies that backup software vendors have created technology to more effectively stream tape drives. As I posted before, if you cannot stream your tape drives, their performance will decline ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
Scott from EMC posted about the EMC DL3D 4000 today. He was responding to some questions by W. Curtis Preston regarding the product and GA. I am not going to go into detail about the post, but wanted to clarify one point. He says:
Restores from this [undeduplicated ...
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