VEMBU BLOG

February, 2009

Will the real data please stand up? A look at deduplication in the online backup world

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Talk about data deduplication (in the backup and archiving domain) seems to be gaining a fair amount of momentum in the last few years! Most enterprise backup software vendors like Symantec (Veritas), EMC (Avamar) etc. support deduplication in some form or the other – some do deduplication in the source system (that is being backed up) and others do deduplication at the target (backup/storage server). There are also pure “deduplication based storage hardware vendors” like Data Domain who have gained considerable traction in the enterprise.

I am actually quite surprised by the hype around deduplication and the adoption it … Read the rest

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Posted in Online Backup, Remote Backup, SP Edition, Vembu StoreGrid | 7 Comments »

Carbonite (and Mozy’s) Achilles heel

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Online backup service provider Carbonite has been in the news for some time now. They were recently in the news for the wrong reasons. Hot on the heels of the Belkin fiasco , “biased reviews without disclosing affiliations” are getting a hard rap on the knuckles!

The Weakest Link for Commodity Online Backup services

The objective of this post is not to debate on companies’ marketing tactics (that too from 2 years ago – I’m not sure if that’s really relevant now) but to point your attention to something else that’s indeed relevant…

Sometimes, we have a VAR/MSP who uses StoreGrid to offer online backup services to … Read the rest

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Posted in Online Backup, SMB, Trends, Vembu StoreGrid | 6 Comments »

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