Initially, it will be a software-only solution, and then over time we will offer additional data protection solutions tightly integrated in our Fluid Data architecture as we’ve done with our other acquired IP, including EqualLogic, Compellent and the Fluid File System." "Dell will extend the benefit of AppAssure across our enterprise solutions and services portfolio. This paragraph from the Dell corporate blog is telling: However, longer term, it appears that Dell is planning on growing AppAssure to address their larger client's needs as well. You open the Command Palette to execute commands, bind custom keybindings to.
Subsequent full mail-storage-group backups using source deduplication took an average of 3 hours, achieving a deduplication ratio of at least 177.4:1. What does this mean to you? If you work at a small or medium-size business, you have another major backup player in the mix to choose from. Dell EMC Isilon F800 all-flash scale-out NAS storage provides up to 250,000. Virtualized backup advantages of the Dell PowerVault DL Backup to Disk Appliance powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 Mail server backup scenario The initial complete backup took just 7 hours. No matter how you slice it, that's some impressive growth.
Fast-forward to today, AppAssure has 230 employees and claim over 6,000 customers worldwide. When I first spoke with AppAssure in late 2010, they had less than 70 employees and only just over 1,000 customers worldwide.
You might be wondering, "Who the heck is AppAssure?" Besides providing image-based backup and recovery and continuous data protection ( CDP), AppAssure's software has basic disaster recovery capabilities with automated failover and the ability to rapidly boot backups into VMs (something which the larger players are just coming to market with now). These two announcements in quick succession, coupled with the late 2011 news that Dell will no longer be reselling EMC Data Domain, signals that Dell is finally getting serious about addressing the backup and recovery market. A little more than a month ago, the company also came to market with a new SMB backup appliance, the DR4000, based on IP from Ocarina (acquired in 2010). This is actually the second significant announcement from Dell this year around backup. Right-click the tape drive that is displayed under either Stand-alone Drives or Robotic Libraries. I woke up this morning to interesting news: Dell announcing that they acquired backup software company AppAssure, marking the first acquisition made by John Swainson, the new president of Dell Software Group. To view the tape drive configuration settings from Backup Exec console, perform the following steps: 1.