Re: Great article - thanks
"Or do you either let them control your backups or not do backups?"
Backups on some storage equipment are done in proprietary formats (usually with fiendishly clever checksum maths), and so you can't just restore onto a different device. Not such a problem with Netapp, who aren't likely to go belly up anytime soon, but with some of the smaller storage appliance players it could be very risky, especially since the margins are razor thin.
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