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  • Wrap-up on Backup from NetApp Insight 2015 (Video)

    Wrap-up on Backup from NetApp Insight 2015 (Video)

    Candidly, whenever I spend a good bit of time looking closely at the breadth of NetApp data protection capabilities, I usually leave with the same two impressions: Wow, I forgot that they do all of those ‘Data Protection’ things, based on what is built-in Why don’t they talk about it more?!? The latter was addressed…

  • NetApp Announces Next Gen Cloud Gateway for Data Protection in AltaVault

    NetApp Announces Next Gen Cloud Gateway for Data Protection in AltaVault

    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…

  • Video summary of Disk-Based Backup Target Systems

    Video summary of Disk-Based Backup Target Systems

    A few months ago, ESG completed its research on Disk-Based Backup Target Systems – the storage platforms that data protection solutions are often built upon. The nice folks in ESG’s video team were kind enough to help me record some of our findings, as well as what made the research compelling. CLICK HERE to read…

  • The term PBBA is overused and often incorrect

    The term PBBA is overused and often incorrect

    There are some who would refer to optimized disk-based target devices that are optimized for as Purpose-Built Backup Appliances (PBBAs), but that term is actually misleading. When one refers to a “backup server,” the implication is that the server performs backups—and in fact, those servers do perform backups. When one refers to a “storage controller,”…