Backup Tape Management

Great Article on Managing Your Tape

Just finished reading Managing Your Tape Is No Longer an Oxymoron by David Hill in InfoStor magazine’s August 2009 online issue. (And in the spirit of full disclosure, Dave Simpson does mention B&L’s Vertices and VaultLedger Tape Management Systems in the Keeping Track of...

The Growing Problem of Data Management.

The exponential growth of data in the enterprise has been well documented. And from all  reports, it’s only going to get bigger. So if reducing the amount of data we produce isn’t a viable option, then the next logical...

Vertices 5.1 Is Out & It’s FREE to Upgrade!

Vertices 5.1 has been released. Available with an intuitive Web-based interface like previous versions, Vertices 5.1 increases the speed, tightens security and gives more control to data center professionals. And best of all: this latest iteration is being provided...

The Problem with Tape and eDiscovery

I just finished reading Christine Taylor’s blog entry “The Question of Tape” on her Byte and Switch blog. She raises a lot of great points, but my favorite part of the article was at the end when she said:

What Is Cloud Computing?

Cloud computing has been on the tip of everyone’s collective tongue for the past few months. The problem seems to be agreeing on what cloud computing actually is. Is the cloud the Internet? Can you have an internal cloud?...

It’s IT Conference Season Once Again.

B&L is gearing up for a couple of upcoming conferences in Florida. The first is the Miser User Group (MUG) Annual Conference in Winter Park, FL from May 1-6. In today’s tight economic climate, B&L can offer smaller, regional...

AFCOM 2009: Our Perspective

The B&L team got back from AFCOM’s Data Center World yesterday. The attendance was definitely down from previous years. Probably an indication of the tough economic times, as well as what some say is the waning relevance of tradeshows...

Getting Ready for AFCOM’s Data Center World 2009

  B&L is preparing for AFCOM’s Data Center World 2009 conference in Las Vegas, NV next week. We’d love to meet up with customers (or potential customers), so feel free to email us and let us know if you’ll be...

Preparing for Disaster

I was reading an article today that perfectly outlines the importance of developing a solid disaster recovery plan. It provides some do’s and don’ts about disaster recovery. I especially liked their Top 10 Tips. Of course, the one that...

Why are organizations still losing data?

Every time I see a headline about another organization losing customer data the only question I have is: how? Seriously. How in this day and age with all the technology we possess are companies still losing data and tapes? B&L...