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Computerworld: Some Linux Issues Are No Big Deal for Newbies

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 21, 2003

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“There are some issues that might seem worrisome to an IT
administrator who’s new to Linux, but they’re really no problem
once you look more closely. Among the areas you don’t have to
sweat, say customers, analysts and vendors, are backup and restore
tasks, clustering and fail-over.

“When it comes to data protection, most major vendors have
ported their premier backup-and-restore tools to Linux. Examples
include IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager, CA’s ARCserve for Linux
running on Intel systems, and CA’s Brightstor for Linux on the
mainframe…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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