November 14, 2019
How to Quit Data Domain
There was a time when Dell EMC’s Data Domain deduplication and compression appliances were a must-have for backup operations. Purpose-built for on-premises backup and recovery, these stand-alone,...
Petabyte - How Much Information Could it Actually Hold?
When a customer says to me, "Hey, I've got two petabytes of tape data I need to move," it’s time to talk about the physics of a petabyte and what that really means. How long to move it, and what work...
October 31, 2019
How to Map Your Journey to Autonomous, Secure Data Protection
If you’re responsible for procuring, deploying, managing, or maintaining data backup and recovery to meet your company’s SLAs, then you know that keeping your data protection operation up-to-date and...
October 24, 2019
What is Cobalt Iron Compass®?
Compass® is the new name of Cobalt Iron's flagship SaaS-based enterprise data protection platform. It has transformed data backup, security, and recovery for enterprises around the world, and now has...
October 15, 2019
How to Improve Cloud Enterprise Backup
Anyone who’s responsible for enterprise data backup knows the pain. You absolutely need data protection, but the operational complexities and costs are becoming less and less tolerable. Though it...
October 9, 2019
Life as a backup administrator: A before-and-after story
The life of a backup administrator is all about data. Storing data, protecting data, managing data, and of course, restoring data (quickly) when needed.
August 28, 2019
How Retail Operations Modernize Backup with Compass®
Today, technology is not only changing the way IT runs, it is changing the way IT supports business operations. Retailers like Cheney Brothers rely on operational efficiency to separate them from...
August 21, 2019
New Technologies Bring New Challenges for Enterprise Backup
If you’re responsible for managing your company’s backup operations, then it won’t surprise you to learn that backup is the largest application in the data center. You know the responsibilities all...
August 12, 2019
Addressing vs. Solving - do you know the difference?
I was visiting a customer recently, and he talked a lot about how he continues to “address” his backup issues — training people on the company’s backup products, working tickets with his vendors,...
June 6, 2019
Shining a Light on Automation Oversight - Part 2 of two part series
The first part of this series explored the need for automation in modern backup solutions. Not just automating existing operations, but seeking out and demanding best practices to protect enterprise...
May 16, 2019