Joe Pfeiffer's blog

Just a quick post today.  Back at the end of August we announced our first cloud vendor partnership with Nirvanix.  Basically it is an OpenStorage plugin that lets you create Storage Units that point to the Nirvanix cloud.  Great for slotting in to Storage Lifecycle Policies to replace duplications to tape since duplicating to the cloud means the data is offsite already.

Every NetBackup user understands the 3-tiered architecture NBU has with a Master Server, Media Servers and Clients.

One of the more intricate details when discussing CDP is how all the data is actually stored inside the CDP product.

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Today at EMC World in Boston EMC announced a new piece of software to complement their DataDomain hardware appliance systems called "DD Boost".  Press release here.

Kristine and I here at Symantec spoke with Jerome of DCIG blogging fame a few weeks ago.  It was a good discussion and he turned around and decided to blog about it on his DCIG blog.  The main points we agreed on during our conversations?   CDP is in a very different place than it was a few years ago and it NEEDS to be integrated in to an existing backup product.