Backup and Recovery Software
Veeam and Vizioncore (Quest Software) seem intent on one-upmanship, especially when it comes to first-mover status for rapid recovery capabilities in VMware environments. Veeam has Instant VM Recovery while Vizioncore has FlashRestore; end-users just care that vendors are focused on rapid recovery techniques.
Veeam is taking advantage of VMware snaps ...
If you’re like the “mad prophet” Howard Beale from the film Network (of the “I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore” fame), when it comes to managing data availability and recovery, maybe it’s time for a change. That’s what a few vendors, including upstart Actifio, ...
Chris Mellor at the Channel Register posted an article suggesting that Symantec is delivering its NetBackup PureDisk on an appliance. This got me thinking about the different delivery models vendors choose and what buyers prefer. Does it matter if deduplication is delivered in software or a hardware ...
It was only last week that I posted news about the Dell-Ocarina deal and now IBM has announced its intention to acquire data reduction vendor StorWize. The music is still playing, but there is one less chair.
StorWize provides real-time data compression technology to help clients reduce physical storage ...
"Nimble Storage's approach of utilizing flash and SATA in a way that combines primary storage and snapshot-based backup in a single solution dramatically lowers equipment costs, reduces backup and restore times from hours to seconds, and streamlines processes," said Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst with analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Newcomer ...
After attending NetApp’s analyst day yesterday, my thoughts turned to how NetApp has differentiated itself regarding data protection. Most of the two- and three-letter acronym companies have a data protection portfolio that includes hardware, software, and services—with a few of these large companies scattering the technologies functionally across their ...
Experiencing unexpected downtime kills productivity … as I recently found out with my laptop PC. In addition to the risk of disruption in daily work activities, there’s a risk of data loss if data is not backed up. Like those in place for tsunamis, early warning of pending ...
Seamless tape integration with deduplication is critical because, as industry analyst Enterprise Strategy Group points out, an estimated 62% of data protection customers use disk-to-disk-to-tape.
via eChannelLine USA - ChannelBIZ: Easing deduplication fear factors for customers.
While much of the hype around dedupe has been focused on data deduplication for secondary disk storage, the technology is rapidly evolving and being applied at earlier points in the data path—upstream from backup storage systems. Several backup software vendors, including EMC Avamar, have been differentiating their ...
Lower disk costs and bandwidth-optimized data transfer are fueling disk-to-cloud (D2C) and disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C) strategies. Iron Mountain’s LiveVault enables on- and off-premises data protection, providing midmarket and midsize enterprise companies with an alternative to tape-centric backup and recovery.
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