So in NetBackup 7 they decided to drop the 2 reporting add-ons and usher in OpsCenter…THANK YOU SYMANTEC!! As an engineer dealing with supporting NetBackup Operations Manager and Veritas Backup Reporter was to say the least a pain in the (shut your mouth!!!). I am sure as a customer it is less of a headache because now when the big cheese asks for a pretty pie graph and statistical reporting they have a one stop shop. So your boss wants a report from your Netbackup environment? You can, yes sir… But wait he wants a report of your backup exec environment as well?

The new Storage Foundation 5.1 is not your daddy’s storage foundation! With the introduction of Storage Foundation 5.1, Symantec has introduced a new feature called "keyless feature enablement". The primary objective of keyless feature enablement is to improve the customer experience with Storage Foundation High Availability and make it easier to deploy, manage and use the product set.

When it comes to Storage Area Networks (SAN) currently the dominant standard is Fibre Channel (FC).  FC has the added complexity of having to manage an additional networking infrastructure for storage.  The alternative of iSCSI exists that allows customers to cut costs and ease management but the performance just isn’t there.  For less demanding workloads iSCSI can fill the gap between NAS and FC SANs.  Prior to the introduction of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) in June of 2009 FC was your only option for high bandwidth applications.  FCoE provides the benefits of FC combined with the simp