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Automating HCI Data Protection
I recently wrote a number of posts covering HYCU, a data protection software solution from HYCU Inc. During the testing I was curious to understand how easy it would be to automate the build of a...
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Pure Storage ObjectEngine for Flash-based Backup
Back in August 2018, Pure Storage announced the acquisition of StorReduce, a start-up company with a nifty data de-duplication engine. That technology has been put to good use and now appears in...
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The need for self-describing secondary data
As primary data becomes ever more portable, we need to ensure that our backups have the same levels of flexibility to be moved, stored and used wherever we need them. Why is this important, and what...
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Nutanix Mine Puts Backup Software Vendors on a Level Playing Field
Update: As of November 2019, HYCU has announced general availability of Nutanix Mine with HYCU. This represents the first backup solution to be GA since launch. Today at .NEXT in Anaheim, Nutanix...
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Rubrik, Cohesity and the battle for NoSQL Backup
This post has been updated with additional information following the acquisition of Imanis Data by Cohesity (9 May 2019). This post was previously titled “Rubrik Acquires Datos IO – Backup Wars...
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Cloud-Native Data Protection
In my career, I’ve been involved in data protection across a range of technologies and platforms. In larger environments, protecting data was a full-time job. Many hours were dedicated to designing...
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More investment in data protection – Clumio & Kasten
Data protection continues to gain more attention from the investment community. In the past few weeks, we’ve seen Clumio come out of stealth and raise $51 million for cloud-native data protection....
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Backup is Your Responsibility – Even in Public Cloud
During a recent outage on Amazon Web Services in part of the US-East-1 region, some customers experienced what appeared to be the total loss of their data, according to a report in The Register. This...
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Managing Legacy Backups
Many times in my career I’ve been faced with managing legacy secondary storage media. By this, I generally mean tapes, but equally, we see backup data being stored on removable drives or file servers...
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Commvault Announces Metallic SaaS Data Protection
At GO 2019, Commvault Systems announced the availability of Metallic, a new SaaS-based solution for data protection. The company will be hoping that the Metallic service can expand the business into...
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