There is an issue with all versions of Netbackup 6.5 through the latest 6.5.5.  This issue might cause the backup of a large number of databases to become unreliable and skip databases.
Read the full Document here.
We have seen this behavior on a few systems, and found that carving up the backups into smaller batch files [...]

Chris Everette, a Contributor to Virtual Insanity posted his thoughts on Cloud Computing and what it means to IT.  Read it here.
This past evening, I had an email conversation with a former colleague who is on the development side of Cloud Computing.  Morgan Catlin, Vice President of IT for Valtira, and I discussed how Cloud [...]

Finally, Microsoft has realized it's position on virtualization in the Enterprise Datacenter is ancient!

I had the opportunity to get some time with Quest software's Spotlight for SQL Server Enterprise.  We use Litespeed already for compression and speeding up our current SQL database backups, but for a dashboard system, Spotlight is quite amazing.
 Take a look at the software directly from Quest here .
 From my hands-0n with it, it [...]

I am currently sitting in the Windows 2008 Virtualization session and it is quite informative. They are offering good live demonstrations of the products. People seem quite excited, I can't wait to get right into the heart of Hyper-V and SAN,etc to see true performance versus ESX.
1 year evals of everything comes with attendance. [...]

After doing a full domain rebuild and Exchange 2003 Standard Edition migration for a customer, we found ourselves with a serious problem.