Musings on the Spectra Logic T-Finity Announcement

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Last week Spectra Logic unveiled the T-Finity, a new high-end tape library that is one of the largest and most scalable units in the industry.  The system can grow to 30,000 tape slots and 480 drives and it creates some interesting questions. As data backup and recovery SLAs have become more stringent, ...

Deduplication, do I really need it?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

I’m always puzzled when a customer tells me that they “need deduplication to run my backups better.” This drives me nuts. Deduplication in and of itself doesn’t make your backups run better. In fact some technologies make backups and restores take a lot longer. These customers aren’t really thinking about ...