NetBackup is an enterprise-level backup and recovery solution developed by Veritas. It supports a variety of platforms, including many versions of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Tru64, Solaris, Windows, and Unix. NetBackup uses a central master server to manage both clients and servers that contain the backup media. The current version of NetBackup is 7.0, which uses NetBackup OpsCenter to manage multiple NetBackup environments. OpsCenter replaces NetBackup Operations Manager (NOM), which was… Read More
How to Choose the Best Backup Technology
Today, backup technology can be very complex. Backup is no longer a matter of choosing a few physical servers and copying your data. You need to look at your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) and determine what kind of backup plan is right for your organization. Also, you need to evaluate your infrastructure and IT team to figure out if you have the in-house resources and… Read More
What You Need Out of Your Enterprise Backup & Recovery Solution
Like patients who may not visit the dentist until their teeth hurt, we hear from many IT executives who really didn’t prioritize data recovery plans until they suffered a loss and couldn’t get all of their data back. After a natural disaster or malicious hacking attempt, no new client ever comes to us and says that in the past they did too much to create and test out detailed recovery… Read More
Should You Be Moving Away from Spinning Disk?
The answer is yes. Throughout my career, I have watched the industry move away from spinning disks to flash technology. Just in the past two years, I saw a big shift towards flash. There are many reasons behind this move. One of the biggest reasons is cost. Costs of Solid State Drives (SSDs) are dropping, making them more affordable, while the capacity of the drives is increasing. That is why… Read More