Data Protection
Symantec Cites BYOD Big Security Threats; Releases MMS
Symantec is addressing big threats to endpoint device security with Symantec Mobile Management Suite (MMS).
Read More- Premiered: 04/19/13
- Author: Christine Taylor
Vembu StoreGrid Provider Editions
Vembu optimizes flagship product StoreGrid for its reseller and service provider customers who struggle with the balance between pricing, new product and services development, and go-to-market choices.
Read MoreNEC HYDRAstor 4000: Grid Storage for Long-Term Retention
The upgraded grid storage system offers real benefits to mid-sized and enterprise business and to cloud hosting providers.
Read More- Premiered: 03/26/13
- Author: Christine Taylor
Sepaton Introduces S2100-ES3 Appliance
Sepaton has released the S2100-ES3 series 2925, an appliance that is purpose-built for large data center environments.
Read MoreData Protection: 20th Century Storage Architectures Won’t Solve 21st Century Storage Problems
Data Protection marketplace is undergoing sea change right before our eyes. All the legacy players, including Symantec, IBM Tivoli, EMC NetWorker, CommVault, are feverishly trying to bring their decades-old architectures to the 21st Century. For at least a decade, I have been saying the old method of doing full and incremental backups has to go. It is archaic and smacks of the 70’s. Why a full backup must be done every week, moving all data across the application server, into the network, then into the backup server before placing it on tape or disk, when 90%+ of that data is the same as last week’s, has never made much sense to me. Ditto with incrementals. Why move an entire 2MB file across the network when only four bytes have changed? The inefficiencies have been mind boggling. Regardless, that is how it has been for three decades. Granted there have been improvements over the past several years. Data deduplication has been a godsend. Now we dedupe the original full at a sub-file level and only keep one copy of each “chunk” in the backup. But we still lug all that data across the network and only dedupe it at the target (so network efficiency remains sub-optimal). Of course, with onset of source level deduplication, we have been able to positively impact the network traffic too. But most of the world is still doing target-based deduplication. Regardless, all these have been positive movements towards the goal of simplifying data protection and ultimately making it disappear entirely as a task to be performed by IT administrators. But wait. Just as we were making these positive strides something else changed the nature of the problem.
Read More- Premiered: 12/04/12
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: Taneja Group Blog
Zetta’s Fresh New Approach to Tired Old Backup and Recovery
Some exciting hybrid backup solutions are coming online, and Zetta is one of the most forward backup and recovery plays we have seen in a long time.
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