“Well, at least you brought lunch.” – Every CIO’s reaction after I tell them we’re going to talk about backup. Backup is broken. Backups are slow and restores are even slower. Even worse, application administrators assume they’re unprotected because they have no visibility into backup processes. To compensate for these limitations, IT teams deploy point [...] …
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A little more than 10 years ago, I wrote an article for InfoStor magazine exposing IT’s Dirty Little Secret: Backup was grossly inefficient – and IT knew it. Back then, nobody talked about the backup problem because there was little that could be done …
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During the course of EMCWorld, we had the opportunity to work with the company Infomous to set up some custom clouds to monitor the Twitter discussion around #EMCWorld and @EMCBackup. You can check out the above cloud interactively on the web, and blow out content to read individual tweets, grouped together by keyword. You may notice [...] …
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After several exciting days at EMC World 2013, you should have had lots of opportunities to hear our great sessions and talks around Backup and Recovery for Vblock Systems. But in case you missed it, here’s a recap: EMC’s Eric Hollis (below left) and VCE’s Tom Chatham (below right) gave a great session talk about [...] …
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After several exciting days at EMC World 2013, you should have had lots of opportunities to hear our great sessions and talks around Backup and Recovery for Vblock Systems. But in case you missed it, here’s a recap: EMC’s Eric Hollis (below left) and VCE’s Tom Chatham (below right) gave a great session talk about [...] …
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Greetings from EMC World 2013! Another record year with nearly 15,000 people from 80 countries. There is no shortage of news from the show including: The headline news from EMC World 2013 is the introduction of EMCViPR, Software-Defined Storage. From my area of interest, we introduced the EMC Data Protection Suite, changing the way customers consume [...] …
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Mark Doncov interviews Dave Miller from law firm Weltman, Weinberg & Reis. Dave discusses how VSPEX deployed with EMC Avamar slashed backup times from 1 week to 45 minutes.
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I’ve gotten into the (good) habit of checking LinkedIn a couple of times a day. I do a quick scan of my profile, groups and the headline news. It doesn’t take me but a minute (as my southern friends say), and I generally glean something useful from it. Time well spent. This week, a post [...] …
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With today’s announcement, a performance worthy of a Dancing with the Stars mirror ball trophy, Data Domain systems are poised to take protection storage to the next level. Let’s take a closer look at some of Data Domain’s new moves.
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Las Vegas is certainly the city of choice this spring when it comes to IT conferences! In the past three months, I have visited here twice already. We aren’t even through April! Here is the Best Part, I along with other members of the EMC team will be back here AGAIN in May for the [...] …
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