Data Domain vs. Simpana Dedup: Round #3

By Mike Richardson, on April 8th, 2011

Round 3: Data Invulnerability vs. Epic Data Indestructability

Ok, so the term “Epic Data Indestructability” doesn’t actually exist, but I needed something for a section title and CommVault doesn’t have clever, made-up marketing term like “Data Invulnerability” to describe the resiliency built into the Simpana platform.  The availability of protected data should be a . . . → Read More: Data Domain vs. Simpana Dedup: Round #3

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Data Domain vs. Simpana Dedup: Round #2

By Mike Richardson, on April 7th, 2011

Round 2: Where to Dedup?

In this post I’ll discuss some of the most important data protection architecture differences between Data Domain and Simpana.  The most defining difference between Simpana and Data Domain is where the deduplication occurs.  The below diagram references the key differences.  I’ll discuss this in more detail below. 

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EMC Data Domain vs. CommVault Simpana Native Dedup

By Mike Richardson, on April 6th, 2011

Disclosure: I was employed as an Enterprise Systems Engineer with Commvault at the time of writing this series.  The content of this series was not reviewed, approved or published by CommVault.

I normally don’t do competitive blogging, but this topic comes up a lot lately.  I’ve had a chance to visit with many customers . . . → Read More: EMC Data Domain vs. CommVault Simpana Native Dedup

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The CPT: The Most Overlooked Threat to Your Data

By Mike Richardson, on October 1st, 2010

How well protected is your data from all types of threats?  Is your data safe because it is backed up and mirrored?  Have you invested in significant hardware and network redundancies and even multi-million dollar remote sites?  What if I told you that your data is most likely still susceptible to a serious threat . . . → Read More: The CPT: The Most Overlooked Threat to Your Data

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