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 about it.
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 clouds interactively on the web, and blow out content to read individual tweets, grouped together by keyword.
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....
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 ...
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.
EMC World 2013 set new heights for attendance and excitement this year. Here are a few highlights from my Day 1. Optimized Backup and Recovery for Virtual Environments Daniel Miller and Eddie Pavkovic presented Optimized Backup and Recovery for Virtual Environments, where they described how Avamar is optimized for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. ...
Joseph Boylan, Advisory Systems Engineer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems, and member of EMC Global Database Specialist team, knows databases. Working with some of EMC’s largest customers in the Northeast and Canada, and across North America, Joe helps organizations identify and solve database backup issues. He walks customers through his version of the Repeat Test. At the Backup and Archive Booth at ...
Lego Architecture sets are among the greatest inventions of the last decade. My seven-year-old son Connor loves to show off his Lego creations, but my wife doesn’t really appreciate the aesthetic value of a Lego Death Star. Thankfully, Lego solved the problem by creating beautiful reproductions of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and ...
EMC World 2013 is next week. Read the blog post to learn three steps to buildng a winning game plan for backup and archive, and stop by Booth 747 for more info on changing your game.
This week we’re celebrating the 10th Anniversary of EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems. Data Domain systems have been at the forefront of deduplication innovation since the beginning. Over the past decade, deduplication has revolutionized the storage industry by significantly reducing the capacity required to protect valuable information by only storing unique segments of data.
The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part IEvolving data protection technology and expanding requirements have completely transformed the backup industry. Unfortunately, with such rapid change, many organizations have fallen into the chaos of an accidental architecture.
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