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
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How are you celebrating World Backup Day? You have it on your calendars for March 31 (Saturday), right? Are you testing your Disaster Recovery solution over the weekend to ensure you can resume service? Remember, if it doesn’t get tested, then you don’t have a “DR Plan”, you have a “DR Hope”. Are you rolling … Read more
A few weeks ago, I decided to upgrade my laptop with an SSD primary disk – and along the way, I discovered the magic that is Acronis. It was supposed to be a trivial upgrade. Especially for a guy who does backup & recovery for a living, right? My awesome Lenovo T420s allows for not … Read more
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
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
Today, CommVault is holding a virtual event to announce some of its latest innovations for the Simpana 9.0 product. I had the opportunity to do some early hands-on testing of a few of the new capabilities during an ESG Lab Review — including its new "OnePass" technology and its ability to integrate with Scale-out NAS. … Read more