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
[cross posted on ESG blog Technical Optimist .com] Deduplication isn’t an “if”, it’s a “when” – and the “when” is now. Take a look at this 5m video to explain where the evolution is coming from, in a technology that everybody ought to be taking for granted. As always, thanks for watching.
While most folks know me as a data protection guy, a few might recall that I was also the senior product manager for some of the “systems monitoring” technologies at Microsoft, including the recently released System Center Operations Manager 2012. So, it’s been a special thrill to take an early look at EMC’s DataBridge Enterprise … Read more
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 changes some presumptions … Read more
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 the publishing of ESG’s … Read more
Mozy has announced the public beta of its new Stash offering. The public beta is available to existing Mozy Backup customers, as an add-on capability that takes advantage of customers’ existing accounts, subscribed storage capacity, etc. In other words, it’s a great example of the convergence between backup-as-a-service (BaaS) and Online-File-Storage (OLFS). ESG recently published … Read more