EMC NetWorker Reaches New Milestones

New milestones were reached with EMC NetWorker enterprise data protection software recently. First, end of support was announced for the 7.5 and 7.6 versions of the software effective January of 2014. That gives you over a year to complete your upgrade to the latest version 8 release. Second, was the announcement of SP2 for NertWorker … Continue reading EMC NetWorker Reaches New Milestones →

The lastest ESRS is now available

I have discussed the EMC Secure Remote Support gateway in the past and there is a new version available bringing us to version 2.22. This release adds support for VIPR, the new VNX and VMAX CE software editions, and the Disk Library for Mainframe (DLM) products. This new release also includes support for your partner … Continue reading The lastest ESRS is now available →

New Look!

Gotdedupe has a new look thanks to the talents of Brad Hagstrom at Succotash Design. I hope you all take a minute to visit the site to see for yourself.

Infinity and Beyond. Great for the movies, terrible for data protection

Without fail, when I am talking to my customers about their retention policies I always get "We keep everything forever" as their answer. It's time to change your thinking folks, and backup and archive admins, I realize I am preaching to the choir here but you have to put together a compelling talk track to … Continue reading Infinity and Beyond. Great for the movies, terrible for data protection →

BRS Sessions at EMC World 2013

If you haven't started planning your EMC World schedule, let me give you a helping hand. The following is a listing of the BRS specific content. You'll see that sessions repeat so don't worry if you want to go to the testing center, meet with one of our executives, or sleep off that party from … Continue reading BRS Sessions at EMC World 2013 →

Millions of Exposed Files…Millions

Bloomberg provided coverage about Rapid7, a Boston based security firm, that did some research on data hosted on Amazon's S3 service. They found that millions of files were exposed because of defaults security policies that were never updated by administrators. You can't blame Amazon for not locking down the files you are hosting in their … Continue reading Millions of Exposed Files…Millions →

Go ahead, get an online quote today!

EMC now has a simple way to get a quote for Avamar and Data Domain at https://store.emc.com/Solve-For/BACKUP-PRODUCTS/c/Backup/layout?layoutType=false&page=0&grid=true&q=:relevance. You can browse the different models of hardware, and software, and quickly request a quote.

Corrupt backup files when using Windows VSS affects all Backup Software

Microsoft recently issued this KB article that outlines an issue with volumes that are created in multiples of 8gb, and volumes that are extended with multiples of 8gb. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2748349. When creating backups of these volumes using VSS, corruption can occur, and 3rd party backup software may not detect the corruption until the file is recovered. This … Continue reading Corrupt backup files when using Windows VSS affects all Backup Software →

ECN gets a new look

ECN or the EMC Community Network is a website dedicated to helping the community of EMC users connect. This site recently got a new facelift as well as a bunch of new functionality. ECN should be the first stop for any admin trying to find an answer to a question about configuration, best practices, troubleshooting, … Continue reading ECN gets a new look →

What is Backup as a Service (BaaS)?

With the proliferation of the cloud these days, more and more companies are looking to take their backups offsite and out of their data center into the cloud. This is defined as BaaS and is something that many of EMC's partners are starting to leverage for their own clients. But BaaS is not just a … Continue reading What is Backup as a Service (BaaS)? →