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Jason Buffington, Engineer and Analyst, ESG Lab
Jason Buffington is an Analyst and Lab Engineer, primarily focused on ESG Lab projects related to data protection, Windows Server infrastructure, storage, and virtualization and the digital presence of ESG Lab.
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Many of the cost and complexity challenges related to the massive growth of data volumes are due to the continual copying of production data for protection, testing, analytics, etc. Venture-backed Actifio, Inc. is looking to solve these pains with the Actifio Protection and Availability Storage (PAS) platform, effectively virtualizing the ...
A few weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my laptop with an SSD primary disk – and along the way, I discovered the magic that is Acronis. It was supposed to be a trivial upgrade. Especially for a guy who does backup & recovery for a living, right? My ...
Today, Symantec held live events covering the upcoming BackupExec 2012 and NetBackup 7.5 releases. According to Symantec, “Backup is broken” (I tend to agree). And they intend to be the fix.
Enrique Salem, Symantec CEO, started by offering “Every year, I stand up and talk about how data is growing … ...
"Asigra's strong technology set and wide partner ecosystem are now complemented by some important enhancements that should significantly benefit their customers worldwide," said Jason Buffington, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.
via Asigra Expands Training and Support Infrastructure to Optimise Delivery of Cloud Backup Platform | Feb 07, 2012 | RFPConnect.
Symantec claims it increased the backup speed in its NetBackup enterprise backup application with the addition of a NetBackup Accelerator feature. The accelerator feature reduces traditional full backups to the speed of incremental backups for millions of small files, according to Symantec.
“They say the speed has been increased by 100 ...
This week, ESG Lab published its Lab Report on the new Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite.
It was a privilege to work with two ESG Lab Engineers, Tony Palmer and Ajen Johan, to do some hands-on with the new Riverbed technologies.
To me, the really cool part of Granite is how it ...
Published on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 at 12:14 pm | 2 Comments »
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Optimizing Server, Application, and Storage Consolidation with Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure
Riverbed Technology provides a performance platform for enterprises implementing strategic initiatives such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing, and disaster recovery in a globally connected enterprise. Riverbed solutions are designed to enable a fluid, dynamic IT architecture by eliminating bottlenecks and ...
Authors: Ajen Johan | Jason Buffington | Tony Palmer |
Today, CommVault is holding a virtual event to announce some of its latest innovations for the Simpana 9.0 product. I had the opportunity to do some early hands-on testing of a few of the new capabilities during an ESG Lab Review -- including its new "OnePass" technology and its ability ...
This ESG Lab Review documents hands-on testing of Simpana 9 software from CommVault, specifically its “OnePass” data change gathering and retention mechanisms as well as its integration with HP X9000 (IBRIX) scale-out NAS.
The Challenges
Companies of all sizes continue to struggle with the various aspects of data protection. A great deal ...
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment.
This announcement coincides with ...
