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Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups

2008-03-26 08:54:19
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups
From: "Martin, Jonathan" <JMARTI05 AT intersil DOT com>
To: <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:28:01 -0400
 
I dislike spam too, but lets not go throwing the Riverbed product under the bus 
because of it. =P
 
We did a pretty thorough analysis of the Riverbed product versus three major 
competitors two years ago and found that *by far* Riverbed was the best "WAN 
Acceleration" device on the market.  We've since deployed them to just about 
every remote site we have globally.  I haven't seen this "Riverbed Copy 
Utility" and when we implemented the point was *not* to do remote backups - 
rather to speed up the movement of data from centralized datacenters to various 
remote offices (which the product does very well, with various SMB, NFS and 
MAPI requests.)  Their product also significantly lessened the time it takes to 
replicate data to DR.
 
-Jonathan

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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu on behalf of Curtis 
Preston
Sent: Wed 3/26/2008 1:28 AM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups



Message and poster dealt with.

I don't normally post my personal opinions about products, but for some
reason right now I feel inspired.

I don't get the whole Riverbed thing.  I don't see any advantages in the
backup arena over using a more standard dedupe appliance or dedupe
backup software, and I see a few disadvantages.

Riverbed, if you're listening, you haven't made a friend today by using
my website to post SPAM, but I am willing to listen if you want to
convince me otherwise.

---
W. Curtis Preston
Backup Blog @ www.backupcentral.com
VP Data Protection, GlassHouse Technologies

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Mark.Donaldson AT cexp 
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> FYI: abuse@backupcentral notified, management at Riverbed Technologies
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> rubbyfiller
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups
>
>
> Performing backups at every remote site is complicated, expensive and
> risky too. Doing backup across the WAN is easier, reliable, and more
> secure.
>
> Have you experimented Riverbed Copy Utility (RCU)?
> It would be a great fit.
> By overcoming bandwidth limitations and reducing network latency,
> Riverbed's WDS facilitates network-based backup approaches in most of
> the customer environments. Riverbed technology optimizes:
> 1.    Centralized backup and recovery of servers and desktop machines
> in remote offices
> 2.    Replication of centralized data repositories between data
> centers
>
> in your distributed enterprise for backing up large amounts of data.
> RCU for disaster recovery can also be used for your remote backup
> solution just as effectively.
>
> http://www.wdsforum.org/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=10
>
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