One Lens to the Future: Visibility without Boundaries
| June 18, 2013
You may have recently read The Backup Window’s May 17 post “Forget the Drapes…How’s Your Plumbing?”, in which Heidi Biggar talks about the important relationship between backup architecture and application deployment, productivity, innovation and ultimately revenue. Also in that article, Heidi shared a video of Guy Churchward, president of EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems division, at ...
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It’s Time for Backup and Archive to Come Home
| June 11, 2013
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One thing I do when traveling on a plane is spend time just contemplating. With sleep deprivation and jet lag, my mind wanders in rather abstract ways. My favorite artist is surrealist Salvador Dali so perhaps I have heightened activity in this part of my brain.On a recent trip, I started thinking about an old house of mine back in the UK. The house was built in the early 1800's in North Yorkshire. It was originally designed as a clothing workshop but was converted to a residential property within 40 years.
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Microsoft TechEd 2013: An EMC Backup Perspective
| June 7, 2013
Another Microsoft TechEd gone by, and speaking for the EMC Backup and Recovery Team on-site, we are finding this to be one of our best conferences of the year!  In between playing with (and trying to learn how to use) our new Surface tablets we got at the show, we also had some really good ...
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Coming to a City (in EMEA) Near You
| June 3, 2013
What better way to hear what our partners and customers have to say about our “Data Protection” products than to get out onto the streets and visit over 25 cities in EMEA? That’s the task for us over the next few months. The full schedule can be viewed here and as you can see we ...
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Backup Game Day Live from EMC World, with Nina Hargus from VCE
| May 29, 2013
This episode of the Backup Game Plan, filmed live at EMC World 2013, features Nina Hargus from VCE giving a play by plan of the VCE portfolio and why backup and recovery is a must have for a converged infrastructure.
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The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part II
| May 23, 2013

Architecture is sexy. The proof? Brad Pitt loves architecture. Brad Pitt has twice been named “Sexiest Man Alive.” Donald Trump’s garish, obnoxious buildings indicate that he hates architecture. Donald Trump has never been named “Sexiest Man in the Room,” even when he’s alone. Do you need more proof? Check out the EMC World Backup and Recovery Keynote with Guy “Incredible Hulk” Churchward. Data Protection Architecture is sexy. Well, to some anyway.
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Backup Is Broken – But Why?
| May 20, 2013
“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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Forget the Drapes… How’s Your Plumbing?
| May 17, 2013
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.
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Got Your Head in the Clouds? We Did at EMC World!
| May 15, 2013
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.
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The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part II Architecture is sexy. The proof? Brad Pitt loves architecture. Brad Pitt has twice been named "Sexiest Man Alive. Donald Trump's garish, obnoxious buildings indicate that hates architecture. Donald Trump has never been named "Sexiest Man in the Room," even when he's alone. Read More...
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