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Cloudberry Online Backup Review

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

If you are looking to push your small business or even just your personal laptop backups to the cloud, Cloudberry‘s Online Backup product might just be what you are looking for! Cloudberry offers several backup products for almost any situation,…

Accelerating Storage Traffic with AutoCache from Proximal Data

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Justin Paul | 10 Comments

Now that it is getting cooler here in the buckeye state my lab gear has been hard at work keeping my office nice and toasty warm. While spewing out BTU’s it has also managed to help me test some new…

Appassure 5 Backup: Installation and Configuration Review

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Justin Paul | 24 Comments

As promised this is the first of a couple articles on the backup products I have been watching. I plan to go through them in alphabetical order, starting with Appassure and ending with Veeam. In the middle I plan to…

VNXe Controller failover compared to other SAN devices

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Justin Paul | 19 Comments

Update: With the release of the VNXe3200 all of the issues discussed in this post have been resolved. For a review of the VNXe3200 controller failover process check out my new article: http://www.jpaul.me/2014/08/vnxe-3200-controller-failover-behavior/ Let me start by saying that the purpose…

Veeam Exchange Explorer

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

Exchange Explorer from Veeam is a product that was just released into public beta; and I must say that it is probably something you are going to want to check out. The idea behind this product is to get rid…

Using Veeam with Data Domain DeDupe Appliances

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Justin Paul | 17 Comments

Veeam is a disk to disk backup solution which makes restore times much faster than tape backups, but one of the drawbacks is the massive amount of disk space required to keep full backup images for long periods of time…

Surviving the Outage

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

Friday evening Ohio residents got hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm with 80+ mph winds. Needless to say everything was a mess, power was out, trees were down, anything not tied to the ground blew away. My wife called…

Veeam 6 Replication: Just how much better then V5?

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

With version 6 of Veeam Backup and Replication comes an entirely new architecture on how to set up WAN replication of your virtual machines. Their marketing propaganda claims HUGE improvements in WAN replication speeds because of this change. If you…

Free VMware Monitoring with vPanorama

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

Today one of the emails that made it through my spam filter was from some company advertising a “Free VMware Monitoring Tool”, normally I would have just deleted it and moved on, but for some reason, I decided to check…

HyperIP WAN Acceleration with Veeam

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Justin Paul | 4 Comments

One thing that hasn’t changed much in IT is the lack of bandwidth. It seems that no matter how fast of a connection you have, there is always wait time because of the large amount of data that you are…