Bill Andrews

Bill Andrews is the author of three books on backup: “Straight Talk About Disk-based Backup with Data Deduplication” “Straight Talk About The Cloud for Data Backup and Disaster Recovery” “Straight Talk About Primary Storage Snapshots & Traditional Backups”

  • Get Answers For System Sizing Of Backup Storage With Data Deduplication
    5/27/2015

    Data deduplication compares each backup to previous backups and only stores the bytes or blocks that change. Employing data deduplication with backup storage greatly reduces the amount of disk storage required and also saves on WAN bandwidth as only the changes are stored, and only changes traverse the WAN to the offsite/disaster recovery site.

  • Keys To Managing Customer Relationships
    3/6/2015

    The keys to managing customer relationships are the same as managing any personal relationship. It boils down to listening, being a good partner, having good rapport, building trust, being transparent, having integrity, and being there when someone needs you. A good customer-IT solutions provider relationship is like a successful marriage.

  • 10 Predictions For Data Protection In 2015
    1/13/2015

    Here are ten data protection predictions for 2015 covering topics including tape backup, offsite disaster recovery, cloud backup, virtualized backup, and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS).

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