Centralized Backup ... aka Jason's Blog
Random thoughts from a Backup-dude … Husband & Father … Christ-follower & Scout-leader … Gamer & former-MSFTie & former-ESG Analyst … now at Veeam
Increasing your use of server virtualization is one of the easiest ways to prove that your backup process is antiquated. In other words: If 20% of your server infrastructure is virtualized, you may be able to use any approach to virtual machine (VM) backups that you want, including agents inside each VM and a backup … Read more
Is ‘Backup’ a four-letter word at Dell? Maybe, depending on who you talk to. If you watched my video summary from Dell’s Analyst Conference in 2014, I was initially excited about their four pillar story being around three platforms [Transform], [Connect], and [Inform] being underpinned by [Protect] that are expanded as Security and Data Protection. … Read more
This morning, NetApp announced AltaVault—the next iteration of what was Riverbed SteelStore, which was acquired in 2014. Check out my earlier blog: Riverbed announces the end of excuses in D2D2C. I am admittedly a fan of cloud gateway appliances as part of a data protection architecture—having previously said, “If you want to add cloud to … Read more
Earlier this month, Dell announced enhancements to its DR seriesof deduplication appliances. Deduplication appliances continue to be a common method of improving one’s overall data protection infrastructure since they can typically be added to whatever backup/archive software or method that you already have, while near immediately reducing the storage consumed in secondary copies. Check out … Read more
Disclaimer: I am not one of the ESG analysts who specializes in “mobility” or cloud-based file services … I’m “the backup guy” covering data protection. But as a twenty-five-year hands-on technologist, I’m sharing a personal experience for your consideration. This weekend, I decided to fully embrace the cloud by getting rid of my last “production … Read more