Filed in archive Backup by jeff goldman on July 10, 2009

Symantec this week announced plans to integrate deduplication into its NetBackup, Backup Exec and Enterprise Vault offerings. "Data deduplication, or single-instance storage, involves the elimina...

MozyHome Gets New Functionality... Plus Coupon Code!

Filed in archive Backup by jeff goldman on April 19, 2009

Decho has upgraded its MozyHome offering to include the following additional functionality: Search functionality has been added to the restore tab of the Mozy client Restore sets based on file types h...

Decho Launches MozyPro for Mac

Filed in archive Backup by jeff goldman on December 25, 2008

Decho Corporation recently announced the general availability of MozyPro for Mac. For desktops and notebooks, MozyPro costs $3.95 per license plus 50 cents per GB per month. For servers, the service c...

SonicWALL Announces CDP Series for the SMB Market

Filed in archive Backup by jeff goldman on December 6, 2008

SonicWALL today introduced its SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Series for small and medium sized businesses. "Though the trend at smaller companies tends to expect employees themselves...

Backup software tested

Filed in archive Backup by James Koopmann on July 27, 2008

How do you backup you data. For me it is a smal .BAT script that traverses my directories and copies over any changed files. It is really quite simple that is built around the XCOPY command. I basica...

Symantec adds de-duplication

Filed in archive Backup by James Koopmann on June 13, 2008

Veritas NetBackup announced the integration of data de-duplication as part of the standard product on Jun 10, 2008. Now integrated with their continuous data protection technology this stands to be a ...

Slice it Up

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on November 14, 2007

With so many data centers working toward consolidation, it seems more than a little odd that a new storage method attempts to do just the opposite: Split it up into pieces. This off-beat method is bei...

Collaborative Backup

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on October 22, 2007

Sometimes IT is lost on the little guys. The prohibitive costs associated with backup and storage can make it difficult for the smaller business to be able to archive and keep up with regulatory compl...

A Growing Problem

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on June 23, 2007

According to a recent study by the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley, 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year are generated world wide. T...

Taming the Backup Beast

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on June 12, 2007

Guess who's entered the data management space? Symantec, long known for its Norton line of computer protection, has made data management part of its lineup. As Symantec puts it, "Data Protect...

Yesterday's Archives, Today's Headaches

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on June 5, 2007

How do you know that your archiving methods today will be enough to retrieve information tomorrow? Will the information you save today be readable in say ten or twenty years? What about encryption? Wi...

Are Blades For You?

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on May 25, 2007

Are blade systems ready for Enterprise storage workloads? A new report by Hitachi says that blade systems can increase compute density and bring space-savings to the data center. The facts: blade syst...

Controlling Multiple Entries

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on May 18, 2007

If you've not implemented single instance storage (SIS) yet, why not? The idea is so simple, it's brilliant: SIS works by searching a hard disk Volume to identify duplicate files. When SIS fin...

Managing Email Storage

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on April 18, 2007

Today, expect each employee to receive an average of 80 emails. Average users receive that many every day, and most employees spend approximately 49 minutes dealing with them. Of those emails, much is...

Is Disk-to-Disk Backup Better?

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on April 5, 2007

If the vendors had any say in the matter, you'd be backing up your data from disk to disk. That's the solution offered by Adaptec, Network Appliance and others hoping to replace your slow, ant...

Hybrids on the Way

Filed in archive Backup by Lori Widmer on March 9, 2007

If five of the largest storage manufacturers have anything to say about it, you'll soon have new technology designed to improve system performance and introduce the world to hybrid disks. Hitachi ...

Saved by a CD

Filed in archive Backup by Andrew Garrett on September 24, 2006

Didrik Johnck's Weblog: Saved by a CD: An object lesson - backups are important, folks. Really important. What's the lesson here?? A single electronic backup is not enough; always do a thi...

Fantom Drives - 1.5 TB for under $1k

Filed in archive Announcement , Backup , NAS , Technology by Andrew Garrett on September 20, 2006

"The G-Force MegaDisk provides up to 1.5 terabytes of capacity - the first drive solution in its class to reach the 1.5 TB benchmark -- in an affordable, high-performance external hard disk dr...

Introducing disk-to-disk-to-disaster recovery

Filed in archive Backup by Andrew Garrett on August 24, 2006

Introducing disk-to-disk-to-disaster recovery: Concepts such as information lifecycle management haven't had much uptake yet. The concept is sound, but there's too much perceived and actual ...

HowTo Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH

Filed in archive Backup , Open Source by Andrew Garrett on August 14, 2006

Create Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH "As neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err / computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system will pre...

Apple takes us back in time.

Filed in archive Announcement , Backup , Technology , Vendor by Andrew Garrett on August 14, 2006

I'm a Mac fan. Not quite a fanatic, but pretty close to it. I'm also a big fan of backups - not just for myself, but for other people as well. I've long bemoaned the reality that backups...

GDrive is Platypus

Filed in archive Backup , Online by Andrew Garrett on July 12, 2006

» GDrive is Platypus | Googling Google | ZDNet.com: If Google offer large amounts of storage for $little, then I'd be very keen. My home backups are in a deplorable state, and I'm constantly...

1.2 billion reasons to encrypt your backups

Filed in archive Backup , Planning/Strategy , Security by Andrew Garrett on May 9, 2006

Insecure about Security: Here's the reality, plain and simple. Since the ChoicePoint breach in February 2005 there have been 9 publicly-disclosed data breach incidents involving tape loss startin...

HP RISS? ILM and paving a way to future storage

Filed in archive Backup , HP , Opinion , Pricing , Technology , Vendor by Andrew Garrett on April 28, 2006

HP RISS? ILM and paving a way to future storage... | Computerworld Blogs: "...the thing I need from HP is the information to be able to engage HP solution sets beyond the level of a hardware ma...

Lacie LEGO

Filed in archive Backup , Nearline by Andrew Garrett on April 26, 2006

the cool hunter - LACIE BACKS UP: lego was a large part of my youth - looking back at it, I'd have to say that it was probably the first major sign that i was destined for a life of geekdom. I...

Panasonic to launch Blu-ray Disc PC drive in June

Filed in archive Announcement , Backup , Technology by Andrew Garrett on April 25, 2006

Panasonic to launch Blu-ray Disc PC drive in June - Computerworld: "Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Panasonic) plans to begin selling a Blu-ray Disc drive in Japan in June for use in de...