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Everyone is #1 in VM Backup!
SeanRegan | 02 Sep 2011 | 0 comments

Lauren Whitehouse at ESG had an interesting blog post a couple of weeks ago about the battle between two vendors in the virtual backup space and their childish twittering about who ruled more. It got me thinking about the mad rush by all vendors to capitalize on the virtualization movement. Somehow in the race to rule VMworld someone forgot to inform the real world that there can't be 4 #1 vendors in the same space. Unpossible! 

So Lauren, thank you for bringing a reasoned voice to the conversation. It is Twitter wars like the one that triggered your blog that have created a need for organizations to investigate social media archiving, something we added to the new release of Enterprise Vault 10 and covered in a recent survey. Putting all of the good...

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NEW Netbackup 5220 appliance
Dean Bliss | 18 Aug 2011 | 1 comment

The 5220 appliance has officially shipped.

5220 Highlights

  • Suitable for environments of any size–starting at 4TB and expandable up to 36TB of useable disk, it is ideal for remote offices, regional offices, and enterprise data centers
  • Multiple functional roles–NetBackup 5220 can be deployed as master server, media server or both for a NetBackup environment
  • Reduction in storage–Decrease storage 10-50x and up to 99% reduction in bandwidth consumption
  • Flexible deduplication options–Deduplication at source or appliance, inline or post-process
  • Up to 32 TB of deduplication capacity per appliance–protect several hundred terabytes of data

For more information click here:

http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=nbu-appliance

5220 Appliance Datasheet:

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Cloud Pilots? Anyone can drive a car, pilots fly planes. Clouds?
SeanRegan | 21 Jun 2011 | 4 comments

I noticed an interesting tweet today from Rachel Dines @Forester. It quoted Carl Meadows @SungardAS. 

 

"Common misconception: cloud solves our sys admin problems. Wrong! Cloud requires more skilled sys admins." 

I have been thinking about this a lot lately as I drive down 101 to Mountain View from SF.  Each day someone gets in a fender bender and traffic continues around them. Sure, life is disrupted but it's par for the course. Sometimes car accidents happen. As I drive south I also pass under SFO. Each day 100s of planes take off. The expectation is that these planes will almost never have an accident. They are piloted by highly trained pilot while the car on 101 is piloted by someone like you and me. 

Cars are like servers.  Planes are like Clouds. 

  • When a plane crashes the media shows up at the scene, the bloggers speculate....
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NetBackup Upgrade Portals
Dean Bliss | 18 Aug 2011 | 0 comments

Looking to upgrade NetBackup? There are several portal sites to help.

Upgrade Portal on Support:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&key=15143&channel=TECHNICAL_SOLUTION&basecat=UPGRADES&sort=recent

Upgrade checklist can be found here:
https://sort.symantec.com/checklist/install

Don't forget to get the latest release of the software from Fileconnect:
https://fileconnect.symantec.com/licenselogin.jsp?localeStr=en_US

Additional patches or hotfixes (EEB) can be found here:
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The Next Big Thing is Already Here
SeanRegan | 15 Jun 2011 | 4 comments

We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space.  One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec. Let’s cut through noise and look at some of the underlying facts.

Innovative, Established and Proven

•                Over 15,000 companies already leverage Symantec’s Backup Exec for Hyper-V support. What Veeam has announced has been in the market for 3 years with Symantec Backup Exec. 

•                Backup Exec protects over 75,000 virtual hosts (approx 60,...

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Symantec Delivers Flexible Deployment Option for Backup and Storage Solutions
Katie Beck | 29 Mar 2012 | 0 comments

Today, Symantec announced its appliance strategy to provide customers with choice in how they deploy its leading data protection and storage management solutions.  With massive data growth frustrating storage and backup professionals, simplicity has become a critical element of the IT infrastructure.  The appliances allow organizations to quickly deploy Symantec technology to reduce the impact of data growth in the fastest deployment model possible.  Appliances also help customers drive down total cost of ownership. Software pre-installed on appliances, front end terabyte licensing model for deduplication and a single point of contact for software and hardware technical support provides additional cost reducing benefits.

In conjunction with this new appliance strategy, Symantec introduced Symantec NetBackup 5200.

  • NetBackup 5200 enables customers to expand their data protection infrastructure with an easy to deploy, all-in-one...
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