There is a little hoarder in all of us.  One night I was captivated by a show called ‘Hoarders’ I saw on the cable channel.  For those not familiar, this show chronicles the lives of individuals from all walks of life, from every class, from every race, and from every culture, that are caught up in a recurring pattern of collecting and holding on to “stuff”. Do not get me wrong- there is no judgment here.  “One person’s junk, is another person treasure.”  That is unless you are a spouse who is fed up with the junk (or treasure) collecting.  Or if you are a storage administrator try

When Microsoft introduced the Windows 2000 operating system, they introduced a new way of managing disks and the capacity they contained. Developed in conjunction with VERITAS Software, Disk Management in Windows 2000 uses the concept of dynamic disks to allow users to dynamically configure their storage i.e. no reboots. The default disk type, referred to as basic, allows for the creation of partitions and logical drives, much in the same vein as Disk Administrator in Windows NT.

With many of us experiencing explosive growth, companies niched in broadcast, media, and entertainment are left trying to figure out how to improve data availability while minimizing cost.  Here at DLT we are helping customers:

• Eliminate wasteful copies
• Create centralized repository
• Simplify management
• Move data to the right storage tier automatically

How do we do this?  We at DLT have partnered with the industries best of breed vendors and forged them together to create a powerful solution.  The

The Federal Government has recently embarked on an initiative to consolidate its 1,100 data centers - the advertised primary objective being cost reduction, primarily through energy savings. While a simplistic approach to consolidation (virtualize everything and use lots of Clouds) may be tempting, changes taking place in the IT industry argue for careful consideration of the technology suites now coming to market. The storm that I see rising is the war between Oracle-Sun, H

What you talkin' 'bout, fool? Does anybody else remember the "A-Team” – Murdock, B.A. Baracus, Hannibal, and Faceman? When planning a mission, George Peppard – the one-time-“Banacek” star – and the “A-Team's” Hannibal, coined the line, "I love it when a plan comes together..." Well, we've been working with a group of Fed IT pros to put together a little caper of our own.

So I’m sure all of you are aware of the challenges NetBackup engineers go thru when it comes to troubleshooting a slew of status codes that NetBackup has to offer when something doesn’t work right.  If you have ever navigated through the manuals DVD that comes with your NetBackup software pack, then you know that NetBackup is a big deal when it comes to troubleshooting a problem.  The troubleshooting guide alone has status codes from 1 to 914!!  Okay I know that it skips some numbers there in between but still that is large amount of codes to get familiarized on! So today I will to

NetBackup Tuning: Part 1 – Shared Memory

Here at the DLT Service Center we regularly get questions around NetBackup Performance Tuning.  So many, in fact, I am starting a “Tuning NetBackup” series, so many of you can tune your own environment.  Of course if you receive your support through the DLT Service Center, you can just give us a ring at 888.358.7658, and we’ll walk you through tuning procedures.

(Note: This blog comes with permission from Josh Stephens, Vice President of Technology (AKA the Head Geek) for SolarWinds. His blog can be found here: http://geekblog.solarwinds.com/) Yesterday I was in Washington DC speaking about building frameworks for secure network management.

Storage Foundation Volume Manager Operations will co-exist with Oracle ASM (Automatic Storage Management) without any performance penalties.  VERITAS Storage Foundation Dynamic Multi-Pathing provides Seamless Multi-path failover capabilities and is complementary to ASM for both high availability and performance.  Customers who wish to use Oracle ASM and VERITAS Storage Foundation together should be careful to follow the procedures.  Oracle ASM is a new feature of Oracle 10g to streamline storage management and provisioning.  ASM provides volume and (CLU

Heard about the new features in NetBackup 7?  If you subscribe to any Backup Technology thread, I am quite sure you have… Symantec’s marketing team has done a great job about getting the word out about the new features like VMware vStorage API functionality, OpsCenter, and Deduplication. In my previous blog I touched upon OpsCenter… but what is this whole de-duplication about?  Why do I care?  Simply put, I can de-duplicate everywhere in my NetBackup Environment.  Everywhere?  Yes, everywhere!