John Askew

Systems Architect at The University of Auckland
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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Over 4 years ago

Answered a question: Best backup for 100Gbps+ read and write with hardware encryption?

I would suggest Veeam with the underlying storage being provided by a Pure FlashArray//C The FlashArray will provide the throughput you are after (its all-flash), the encryption (FIPS 140-2 certified, NIST compliant), data reduction (Veeams isn't that great) which should…

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of Commvault Cloud: Good support and stable, but it is overly complex to use

Over 8 years ago

Answered a question: HPE 3PAR Flash Storage vs INFINIDAT InfiniBox

Numi is quite correct 3PAR AFA and Infinidat are two very different products, the 3PAR aimed at workloads that require low latency and Infinidat at more general workloads like OLTP, backup, etc Without know what sort of workloads you are trying to support its hard to make…

Almost 9 years ago

Contributed a review of IBM Storage Protect: apart from restoring data that has been inadvertently deleted or corrupted, we also use Spectrum Protect in conjunction with Spectrum Scale.

Over 10 years ago

Contributed a review of HPE 3PAR StoreServ: Once we got comfortable with the product, we found it to be very stable.

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