Symantec, the world leader in backup and recovery, provides customers the freedom of choice. With NetBackup and Backup Exec, customers are able to choose the form factor to best meet their needs; a software based solution or a fully integrated appliance. ...
PostgreSQL (commonly referred to as Postgres ) is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It is used by several prominent users including the International Space Station, Skype, Reddit, and Yahoo!
In a blog post last year, ...
It seems like businesses are looking at modernizing backup like it’s a trip to the dentist: too time-consuming and painful, and always costly! So they end up taking shortcuts, hoping that the cavity of data loss will never occur. But just as advances in ...
Backups have become a big and burdensome operation for many backup admins. SLAs are getting tighter while information grows and new platforms like virtualization create higher density environments. With these forces in play the current approach to backup ...
Forget the itchy socks, the sweater I will never wear, and the crock pot (nice try…but still not getting me to cook). You can imagine my excitement when I opened this Christmas gift – a vintage typewriter keyboard for my iPad. If you are like me, you ...
Tom: Hey Bob, we’re planning to start the weekend a little early tomorrow with happy hour at Brit’s. Care to join us?
Bob: You know I would, but I have to finish building the media server. It needs to go into production next week, and I still do ...
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with backup tapes. This was thrown on the table during a recent customer meeting in the context of getting data offsite and onto disaster recovery sites. What a great visual I thought to ...
All bark and no bite. Heard the saying? It essentially means one who talks a tough story, but then shuns away when asked to step up.
In 2010, Symantec conducted a survey of more than 1,600 senior IT and legal executives in 26 countries to ...
How many of you have made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight? Well OK, maybe not weight literally but you’ve been tasked to find ways in 2012 to reduce cost in your backup infrastructure and with a bit of smart maneuvering actually improve backup ...
Could you obliterate your backup window problems with 100x faster backups? What if your car company called you up and told you that with a software upgrade you could make your car accelerate 100x faster. What if the county or province where you live ...