I usually don't trumpet the arrival of each new Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) that we post for NetBackup, but this one is special since we're annoucning support for Quantum's OST device which I blogged about a little while back. Good stuff. I love treating disk as disk.
The Symantec Enterprise Vault and NetBackup Product Management Teams are conducting customer research in support of our product integration planning. The first part of this research effort is 4 page web survey (see below). This online survey is designed to collect some relevant customer environment and satisfaction/outlook data. We would like to get as many NetBackup and Enterprise Vault customers as possible to complete the survey so that we have a comprehensive data set, and also to leverage these responses in recruiting for our 2nd wave of research (customer “interviews”) and possibly other related follow-up discussions.
The survey should take approximately 20 minutes to complete (it contains 40 questions). The survey is intended for product administrators (NBU and/or EV administrators). The questions assume a strong understanding of the information managed by our products, as well as the environment...
Growth is a problem lots of companies would like to be dealing with right now. But it isn’t always easy to manage growth, especially growing your IT infrastructure to keep up with a fast-growing business.
This was a problem facing ENGlobal, an engineering firm that provides services to the energy sector. ENGlobal has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, both organically and through acquisitions. As a result of this growth, the company ENGlobal had outsourced its backup operations to couldn’t keep up, causing backup costs to increase by 50 percent.
ENGlobal made the determination that could cut costs and be better off financially in the long run if they were to bring data protection back in house. The company turned to NetBackup to solve its backup needs. Over the life of the project, ENGlobal expects to save $6.25 million in outsourcing...
My last post showed NetBackup Operations being displayed on a Nintendo Wii.
Stumpr asked about the iPhone. I'm glad you asked. Here is a screen shot of Veritas Backup Reporter on an iPhone.
I can't help you with the "how do I get my company to expense and iPhone or a new HDTV and a Wii" - although I wish I could.
The trend is clear - smart devices and ubiquitous remote access will mean that more and more administrators will want to peek into their environment and do administration from home or the local coffee shop. All I ask is that everyone will pull over their car when they need to initiate that critical restore request :)
I got a big chuckle out of this screen shot sent in by a customer. If you look closely on the bottom, the buttons are unmistakeably the Opera web browser on the Nintendo Wii. The web page displayed is the main monitoring page of NetBackup Operations Manager, which allows you to monitor, manage and report on NetBackup servers at multiple versions located potentially located in multiple locations. This is fantastic, you can play a few tennis matches, then switch gears and start monitoring backup and restore operations. We don't formally test compatibility with Opera on Wii but I would like to point out that it's better to have NetBackup on Wii than NetBackup ennui ;)
When I talk to customers about web interfaces, everyone brings up the simple use case of being in a remote situation where you...
Growth is a problem lots of companies would like to be dealing with right now. But it isn’t always easy to manage growth, especially growing your IT infrastructure to keep up with a fast-growing business.
This was a problem facing ENGlobal, an engineering firm that provides services to the energy sector. ENGlobal has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, both organically and through acquisitions. As a result of this growth, the company ENGlobal had outsourced its backup operations to couldn’t keep up, causing backup costs to increase by 50 percent.
ENGlobal made the determination that could cut costs and be better off financially in the long run if they were to bring data protection back in house. The company turned to NetBackup to solve its backup needs. Over the life of the project, ENGlobal expects to save $6.25...
How deduplication can contribute to the restore process….
A couple of days back, whilegiving a PureDisk lecture, I got into an interesting discussion about howdeduplication technologies pop up at different levels: deduplication at the source, at the target,at a gateway level, or built into the application. You name it; they are allavailable and focused on incredible numbers pushed by dedup enthusiasts.
In the case of the backupsolutions, the focus seems primarily on dedup savings during the backupprocess, where higher deduplication rates can deliver higher backupthroughputs, reduce backup time, and support much longer retention on disk. Allare correct and very efficient, don't get me wrong, as I'm one of thoseenthusiasts, but what about the restore process? That is where thediscussion touched an interesting subject...
Can deduplication be used toimprove the restore speed? The answer is Yes!
of Veritas Backup Reporter on an iPhone. 
