Gianfranco Lanza's Professional Profile

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Over 2 years ago

Answered a question: How would you compare Dell PowerProtect DD vs NetApp FAS series?

I think they are different types of storage for different purposes If you are looking for a storage where to put backups data you can think Data Domain is the perfect choice because it is its main use (most or all the backup softwares have plugins in ordere to manage data…

Almost 3 years ago

Answered a question: When evaluating Deduplication, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

I think the most important features to look for are whether dedupe is online or at rest and if the block size is fixed or not.

About 5 years ago

Answered a question: When evaluating backup and recovery software, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?

I think the most important aspect when evaluating a backup software it's starting from the needs. What are the architectures, the applications, the servers, the databases to restore ( not backup )? And also, what are the peoples that will be responsible of the backup service…

Over 6 years ago

Answered a question: Which software would you recommend for enterprise backup -- Commvault or Veritas Netbackup?

I can only confirm the stability of Netbackup. I cannot compare it with Commvault because I never used it.

Almost 7 years ago

Contributed a review of NetApp OnCommand Insight: We can proactively anticipate performance issues on the server or databases

Over 7 years ago

Contributed a review of Dell Storage Resource Manager: Storage monitoring tool that alerts us to failures. I would like to see an easier use of agents.