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EMC to buy Isilon Systems
I understand the rationale behind EMC’s purchase of Isilon scale out NAS technology for big data applications. More and more data is being created every day and most of that unstructured. How can one begin to support multiple PBs of … Continue reading
Posted in Data, data protection, File Storage, Storage, Storage architecture, Storage Backup
Tagged backup systems, EMC, Isilon Systems, Scale out NAS, SO/CFS, tape elimination
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Why Bus-Tech, why now – Mainframe/System z data growth
Yesterday, EMC announced the purchase of Bus-Tech, their partner in mainframe or System z attachment for the Disk Library Mainframe (DLm) product line. The success of open systems mainframe attach products based on Bus-Tech or competitive technology is subject to some debate … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Data efficiency, Data growth, data protection, Storage, Tape storage
Tagged backup storage, Bus-Tech, Channel, Deduplication, DLm, EMC, FDR, IBM, Luminex, mainframe storage, mainframe tape, System z, Tape library, Virtual Tape Library, z/OS, zBX
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Cloud storage replication does not suffice for backups – revisited
I was talking with another cloud storage gateway provider today and I asked them if they do any sort of backup for data sent to the cloud. His answer disturbed me – they said they depend on backend cloud storage … Continue reading
EMC NetWorker 7.6 SP1 surfaces
This week EMC releases NetWorker 7.6 SP1 with new Boost support for Data Domain (DD) appliances which allows NetWorker’s storage node (media server) and the DD appliance to jointly work on providing deduplication services. Earlier this year EMC DD announced the … Continue reading
Posted in data protection, Storage Backup
Tagged Backup, Data Domain, DD Boost, EMC, Networker
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CommVault’s Simpana 9 release
CommVault annoucned a new release of their data protection product today – Simpana® 9. The new software provides significantly enhanced support for VM backup, new source-level deduplication capabilities and other enhanced facilities. Simpana 9 starts by defining 3 tiers of … Continue reading
Cloud storage, CDP & deduplication
Somebody needs to create a system that encompasses continuous data protection, deduplication and cloud storage. Many vendors have various parts of such a solution but none to my knowledge has put it all together. Why CDP, deduplication and cloud storage? … Continue reading