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Netting Out NetBackup

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Disk Links
TimBurlowski | 27 Apr 2008 | 0 comments
 

I recently wanted to upgrade my storage at home. I wanted to check out the most recent reliability ratings for hard drives. What I found from casual searching was a more than a little alarming.

1) "Disk failures in the real world: What does an MTTF of 1,000,000 hours mean to you?", by Bianca Schroeder and Garth A. Gibson
2) "An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack", by Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
3) "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population", by Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andr´e Barroso

So what do I think after reading these...

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Twitter Happiness
Joe Pfeiffer | 25 Apr 2008 | 2 comments

I've recently become utterly addicted to Twitter (thank you Tim).  It's really interesting to watch what people have on their minds and every once in awhile I search for the term "NetBackup" to see if anyone is posting tweets about the product.  A few days ago I came across this: “Solaris with zoned servers and NetBackup 34 minutes from bare metal to Restored, with running oracle.”http://twitter.com/lthomas987/statuses/795385028 Now I know I am a giant nerd for searching for my own company/product on Twitter (kind of like Googling your own name) but I felt warm and fuzzy to know that our product got somebody back up and running in 34 minutes.  If you don't know what Twitter is, check out thisand I apoligize in advance if you get addicted (again, thank you Tim).

Message Edited by Tyler Carter on 05-01-2008 09:40 AM

Message Edited by Tyler Carter on 05-01-2008 09:41 AM

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Revolutionary Ideas
TimBurlowski | 17 Apr 2008 | 0 comments
 
 
 

NetBackup has a long history of coopetition. Heterogeneous backup means that some of our best partners are also at times fierce competitors.

An excellent example is EMC. We partner and compete in numerous ways.

I was recently reading an EMC blog post titled “Peace, Love and Revolution” written by Scott Waterhouse. He made an impassioned plea for backup vendors to create advanced ways to interacts with storage devices.

“Why can't my backup application either instruct the appliance to replicate, and make an entry into the catalog of retained data? Or, why can't my appliance notify the backup application of the second, remote copy?...

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A Disk by Any Other Name...
Tyler Carter | 14 Apr 2008 | 0 comments

Spider-man once said, "With great power comes great responsibility."  Actually it may have been his uncle that said it, but that's beside the point.  Just like discovering super powers complicated Peter Parker's life, unlocking the power of disk-based data protection technologies can be intimidating for even the most savy backup administrators.  Recently, Alex Davies, one of our NetBackup technical experts, wrote a paper to help decipher all of the disk-based technologies available to NetBackup users today.  I thought he did an excellent job of giving a candid review of each of the different disk technologies, including the benefits and drawbacks of each. NetBackup 6.5 Disk-Based Data Protection Capabilities If you don't have time to read the whole paper, I recommend you take a look at the section titled AdvancedDisk.  It's a lesser known feature within NetBackup that allows you to...

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Expert Interview: Dave Little
TimBurlowski | 11 Apr 2008 | 0 comments
 

This week I got to interview one of my favorite NetBackup experts, Dave Little. Dave has a real knack for providing technical expertise, folksy wisdom, and deep insight into backup and recovery operations.

Tim: Tell us a little about your background Dave. What are you doing now, how long have you been working with NetBackup and what positions have you held?

Dave: I started working with NetBackup while I was still at Control Data Systems in Arden Hills.I worked in the mid 1990s with some of the engineers from the "backup group" prior to Control Data selling that group to OpenVision. This is the group that created the product we know today as NetBackup. I left Control Data after 29.7 years to go to work for OpenVision in their new support group in April 1997.While at Control Data I mostly worked in support and was the first...

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How to upgrade or replace backup software - More Thoughts
Peter_E | 09 Apr 2008 | 0 comments
 

Stephen Bigelow, of SearchDataBackup.com (or TechTarget) posted a brief article entitled "How to Upgrade or Replace Backup Software".  Stephen raised some good points which can be summarized as follows - "make sure to invest in a backup platform that supports next generation technologies" such as VMware, encryption, and data deduplication.  Needless to say, for larger enterprises or those with heterogeneous environments I would advocate upgrading to the NetBackup Platform to address current and future needs

Curious to know more about the NetBackup Platform?  I suggest a skim of this NetBackup Platform whitepaper.  I don't what to repeat in a...

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Securing NetBackup
TimBurlowski | 04 Apr 2008 | 14 comments
 
 
 
 

When you work on a product as big as NetBackup, you get to work with a lot of talented and interesting characters. One of those people is Bill Browning, a Senior Principal Software Engineer focused on Security. Since I couldn’t cajole Bill into writing his own blog posts I decided to interview him.

Q) Bill, tell us a little about your background. What are you doing now, how long have you been working with NetBackup and what do you do?

A) Currently I spend my days working on security related issues within NetBackup, and coordinating vulnerabilities as they are reported. I've been working on NetBackup and NetBackup related products since 1999.

Q) What is the most interesting security related trend you have seen in the datacenter in the last year?

A) I find it interesting that the trend is continuing away from attacking server platforms towards middle ware and client side...

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