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----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 7:57 AM > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Remote Online Backups > > FYI: [EMAIL PROTECTED] notified, management at Riverbed Technologies > notified. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > rubbyfiller > Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:59 AM > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > 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 > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
