Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
TSM presents unique deduplication challenges due to its progressive incremental backup strategy and architectural design. This contrasts with the traditional full/incremental model used by competing backup software vendors. The result is that TSM users will see smaller deduplication ratios than their counterparts using NetBackup, NetWorker or Data Protector. This post ...
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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 ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
I track numerous sites focused on data protection and storage and am always interested in what other industry participants are discussing. The blogroll on this site includes links to some informative and interesting blogs. However, as with anything else on the web, everyone brings their view of the world which ...
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