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  • What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 3 of 3

    What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 3 of 3

    In my earlier posts from this series, I discussed adoption rates and rationales for purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) over do-it-yourself (DIY) backup servers and then explored some top-level DIY vs PBBA determinants and non-determinants. Start with ease-of-architecture/acquisition (covered in part 2), meaning right-sized parts that are assured to work well together – and the convenience…

  • What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 2 of 3

    What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 2 of 3

    In my earlier post about the characteristics of good backup appliances, I discussed the increasing usage rates of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) by those organizations that embrace them. But after listening to several sessions at IBM Interconnect last week, including discussing our upcoming research report on data protection appliances (DPAs), I started thinking about, what…

  • What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 1 of 3

    What Makes a Good Backup Appliance – Part 1 of 3

    In general, I am a fan of data protection appliances (DPAs), noting that purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) are just one of four categories of DPAs that are in market today. Read more about the four categories of DPAs in my earlier blog. ESG is in fact just finishing up some research on the various DPAs…

  • Data Protection Appliances are better than PBBAs

    Data Protection Appliances are better than PBBAs

    Too many folks categorize every blinky-light box that can be part of a data protection solution as a “Purpose Built Backup Appliance” or PBBA. But the market isn’t just a bunch of apples with an orange or two mixed in, data protection appliances (DPAs) can be apples, oranges, bananas and cherries — but if you…

  • HDS bought Sepaton – now what?

    HDS bought Sepaton – now what?

    Have you ever known two people that seemed to tell the same stories and have the same ideas, but just weren’t that in to each other? And then one day, BAM, they are besties. Sepaton was (and is) a deduplication appliance vendor that has always marketed to “the largest of enterprises.” From Sepaton’s perspective, the…

  • EMC announces another step towards backupless-backups

    EMC announces another step towards backupless-backups

    Last week, in London, EMC made several announcements – many of which hinged on the VMAX3 platform – but the one of most interest to me was ProtectPoint, where those new VMAX machines will be able to send their backup data directly from production storage to protection storage (EMC Data Domain) without an intermediary backup…

  • 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 Spectrum of Data Protection

    The Spectrum of Data Protection

    It is interesting to me how marketing folks and technical purists banter IT terms around, in hopes of sounding fresh and compelling to their customers. While “backup” is often thought of as passé or the bane of IT operations, “data protection” is perceived as more strategic, with other lofty terms such as “business continuity” and…

  • HP announces StoreOnce Catalyst

    HP announces StoreOnce Catalyst

    This week at HP Discover 2012, HP announced StoreOnce Catalyst as a software accelerator (API toolset) that enables its HP StoreOnce backup appliances to achieve up to 100TB/hour in backups – and in restores, too! Along with support for HP’s own Data Protector 7 (also announced at Discover), the StoreOnce family supports Symantec NetBackup and…

  • Video explaining Dedupe 2.0

    Video explaining Dedupe 2.0

    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. Originally posted on my personal self-managed blog while at ESG (TechnicalOptimist.com),…

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