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One of the most powerful features of Avamar software is its ability to replicate backup sets to another Avamar grid, providing offsite backups without the hassle of cutting and handling tapes. Avamar’s deduplication functionality not only reduces the amount of storage required but also the bandwidth required to replicate what is functionally the equivalent of a full backup. While the reduction in bandwidth is dramatic, the difference bytes still have to be sent across a WAN link. Sizing that bandwidth properly is critical to the effective operation of the Avamar System.

The term “Data Loss Prevention”, or “DLP” for short, is being used to universally describe any technology able to detect, and then react to, information matching one or more pre-defined patterns as it traverses network devices, servers or workstations. As is the case with the most promising and well-funded concepts (think “SaaS” or “Cloud Computing”), the term is altogether overused, fairly misleading and, as a result, not completely understood by the overwhelming majority of businesses that would benefit greatly by leveraging the technology within their respective environments.

The hype machine is in full swing regarding cloud based computing, and I’m beginning to think that this juggernaut of marketing and confusion may be the biggest barrier of them all to wide-spread cloud adoption. I said this a few posts ago, and I’ve had a lot of conversations about this with various people.  Cloud …

One of my favorite questions to ask smart IT folks is why they backup data at all. After the unavoidable litany of doing file level restores, email restores, server restores, compliance requirements, etcetera, etcetera, we come to the real answer: the guy before me did it this way.

The long-awaited release of VMware Site Recovery Manager 4 is finally upon us. Many have been holding their upgrade plans to vSphere4 until this release of Site Recovery Manager. In this release, VMware customers start to see a single pane of glass into their Virtual Datacenter using the linked vCenters feature within vCenter4 and Site Recovery Manager. VMware View 4 will be the next major product offering from VMware to follow.