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The Absolute Best Practice for SQL Server Backups
As a good friend of mine often says, “No one has ever been fired for not backing up, but people get fired every day for not being able to recover data.” Therefore, when considering how to implement...
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Attention! Be a Hero With a Good Backup and Recovery Business Impact Analysis
The Data Protector. The Backup Behemoth. The Recoverer. No matter which data protection hero you are, you need tools to fight data interruptions, combat downtime, and ward off data loss. A business...
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Backup and Recovery Business Impact Analysis template: How to Create One and...
(Turns Out, Smokey the Bear was Right All Along) The fire department near our house is a font of community goodness. Its cherry-red engines are cleaned up and positioned for quick action; there’s a...
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You Got Served (by Downtime): 5 Hot SQL Server Backup Strategies
Months ago I confessed to being a data hoarder . After all, it’s just data – how can it be hoarding if you can’t see it? I hope this isn’t a huge disappointment, but I’m here to report that not much...
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Be Prepared! Is Your Disaster Readiness Plan in Place?
I have fond memories as a Boy Scout of camping, archery and earning merit badges for building lean-tos. I think of the scouts credo “Be prepared!” all the time. That motto is as relevant today as it...
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AppAssure ‘Preview of Coming Attractions’ at VMworld 2015
The trailer for a much-anticipated film can be as exciting to movie fans as the main feature. Dell doesn’t have a feature film in the works, but we’re offering a ‘sneak peek’ at the next generation of...
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Utilising Amazon's Cloud Backup Services With NetVault Backup and Dell DR...
These days everyone is talking about ‘the cloud’, and many IT administrators are thinking if they can utilise the cloud to store backups offsite, they can try and get rid of some of their dependence on...
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Attending #VMworld 2015? Join our Selfie Contest!
We are calling all VMworld attendees to show us your most creative selfie in front of our #ExpectMore Wallscape that is located in the beautiful heart of San Francisco on the corner of Powell and Ellis...
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Introducing Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Recovery
Dell Software Group is pleased to announce the Beta release of Dell Data Protection | Endpoint Recovery! This release is being made publicly available for the first time today. Please help us make a...
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Join us in Austin for Sunshine, Great BBQ, and Dell World 2015
Last year, I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Dell World in downtown Austin, Texas. I volunteered for an eight-hour event staff shift – and boy was it hard work, but so worth it. I’m starting...
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Ending the Data Protection Firefight. Part One- Keeping up With Today’s DP...
How much time does your company's IT team spend firefighting? Too much, of course. But couldn't that time be better spent ending the daily firefighting of manual backup checks, regular library cycling,...
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Dell Ushers in Next-Generation of Backup and Recovery with Launch of Dell...
For as long as I can recall, IT vendors have talked about the “future” of data protection, discussing a far-off day when data and applications would become the currency of the business, organizational...
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Protect Your Prime Work and Life Asset
How much of your prime asset time do you devote to thinking about losing data? Way too much if the last thought on your mind, come Friday night, is a tape backup. For many companies, it’s a daily...
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The Making of a Hero
True story. It’s a big day for the state legislature. Which state? We’ll keep that to ourselves. It’s a half hour before the guard unlocks the doors. There’s a key bill on the docket that everyone...
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Super Agent Man vs. Super Agentless Man? Consider The Avengers
Riddle me this. Why would a movie franchise choose to pit one super hero against the other, instead of fighting the bad guys? I mean, Batman vs. Superman? Really? No doubt I will have my detractors,...
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Max the Cloud: Think Big with IaaS Archiving
Stress is an unpleasant by-product of having to save a lot of stuff – like petabytes of data – just because you have to. We’re talking about infrequently accessed data that no one wants or needs for...
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Max the Public Cloud: The Fairest, Fastest Snapshot of Them All
Oh Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...? It’s interesting to think about fairytales in terms of IT solutions. The Evil Queen will need to install the right backup system to capture a point-in-time and access...
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Max the Public Cloud: Disaster-Proof Your Mission Critical Apps
You’ll never see anyone jump back in amazement because Exchange doesn’t go down when disaster strikes. But you might hear a sign of relief from those in the know. A workload-specific Disaster...
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Adele’s “25:” The Soundtrack of the Secondary Storage Squeeze [New E-book]
If you’re working out your secondary storage problems and could use some musical inspiration, listen to Adele’s “25” album. It makes for a pretty good soundtrack. I like to play music while...(read more)
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Business Expectations, Backup Retention Policies and Adele’s “25” — Sure,...
“We’re going to start 2016 setting new backup retention policies,” says your boss. “Go talk to managers in each of our business units tomorrow and find out what they expect.” That means...(read more)
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