A lot of time goes into picking a backup application such as Veeam, Veritas NetBackup, Commvault, HYCU, Oracle RMAN Direct, and dozens of others. However, rarely does anyone think about or truly understand the impact of the backup storage that sits behind...

There are many misconceptions about data deduplication and storage architecture, and making decisions based on those misconceptions can produce undesirable (and unplanned) results. This document explains the various approaches and offers a “right...