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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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Veritas, including Symantec data protection offerings during their merger

I watched a DataCenter get hit by a Hurricane … and recover

December 4, 2013February 12, 2018

I don’t often re-post vendor marketing content – but since they let me be a small part of simulating a hurricane/flood of a datacenter … Symantec rented out a 6-story hurricane (100mph) simulator in South Carolina … and then flooded a working datacenter server-stack with 35,000 gallons of water: Most folks know me as a … Read more

Categories ESGTags BC-DR, Veritas, Videos and Webcasts

Cool High Availability Video from Symantec

October 3, 2012October 3, 2012

Every IT guy has had a day when they wanted to take a sledgehammer to a server or maybe drop a whole rack from a tall building.  Admit it, we’ve all thought about it – but then, you’d have to rebuild everything and in the meantime, deal with the outage and all of the disgruntled … Read more

Categories ESGTags ESG, High Availability, Veritas, Videos and Webcasts

Symantec offers Better Backup for All

February 8, 2012February 22, 2012

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

Categories ESGTags Backup-to-Disk, ESG, Veritas
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