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Side Note: As I travel the country talking to companies, I have been asked why I have not posted another blog entry in a long time. I guess I could justify it by saying that I don’t have anything new worth saying, and that I don’t want to waste your time with a lot of marketing hype.  That may be true, but the real reason is just a lack of time.

Most companies can get a better Return On Existing Assets (ROEA) by simply adjusting their backup policies. The economy is forcing all companies to look for ways to make their existing assets go further.  Although I work for a company that has many products that can help do that, the first area every backup administrator should look is at their existing backup policies. 

If you are going to run your VTL near it's capacity, you need to understand how to insure that you are not retaining data that your backup application has already expired. An advantage virtual tape has over physical tape is that the storage for a virtual tape can be assigned to other virtual tapes when not in use.

It is hard for a technical person to not ask how something works. How does one deduplication technology differ from another? How big of a block size does it use? What form of hashing is it using? These are all great technical questions, but what are the really important questions?