Symantec offers Better Backup for All

Today, Symantec held live events covering the upcoming BackupExec 2012 and NetBackup 7.5 releases.  According to Symantec, “Backup is broken” (I 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 … and every year we underestimate it.” … Read more

Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery

[originally posted on my ESG blog – TechnicalOptimist.com] It wasn’t that many years ago that ‘Disaster Recovery’ was a key buzz word for IT.  Somewhere along the way, it became ‘Business Continuity’.   Now days, it is simply a feature of your backup or storage solution.  Or is it? First, let’s talk through the layers from … Read more

ESG Lab Validation – EMC VNX Total Protection Pack

One of the coolest parts about going from a single-vendor to ESG has been the chance to see IT from a broader perspective. As a long-time ‘software-guy’, this was a chance to re-discover the power of hardware, particularly as it relates to data protection.   This week, the ESG Lab team released its most recent … Read more

Are You A Collaboration Basket Case?

  originally posted on As an old-school backup guy, one of my favorite sayings is: “If you are putting all your eggs in one basket, it better be a good basket” It’s true for Virtualization (which I will talk about in a future post) and it’s true for collaboration platforms like Exchange or SharePoint.  And … Read more