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My passion for technology started at an early age and has never stopped. Today, I find myself immersed in backup. Yep, I live, breathe and tweet backup. In fact, nothing short of fully understanding how things work will keep me from digging deeper. But when I’m not evangelizing on the benefits of backup or technology in general, I can be spotted at a New England Revolution game, behind the lens of a camera or listening to my favorite albums on vinyl. In addition to blogging for The Backup Window, you can find me on the EMC Community Network. Also, I'm a member of EMC Elect 2013, and I'm active in the New England VMware User Group (NEVMUG) and the Virtualization Technology User Group (VTUG). Let's get technical!
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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 ... Continue Reading » - VPEX 2013 Preview: What You Don’t Want to Miss
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Passion. It’s what drives and motivates us to explore new things, drive change, and enjoy a better life. For some, it’s bridge and canasta. For me, it’s two things: football (the real “football”) and technology. So, this weekend couldn’t have been better. I spent Sunday morning watching my beloved Manchester United beat Liverpool in the ... Continue Reading » - Architecting Your EMC Backup, Recovery, and Archiving Solutions Comes To the iPad!
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Look out Ruzzle and Fun Run! Your days at the top of the Free iPad app charts are numbered! There is a new app in town! Those of you who attended EMC World 2012 and visited the our booth were treated to some pretty state of the art one-on-one consulting on your particular backup, recovery, and ... Continue Reading » - The Backup Administrator’s View of the VMware Business Process Desktop
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Besides the VMware vSphere Data Protection announcement which you have read about here on the blog, little time has been spent on discussing a lot of the End-User Computing (EUC) announcements and advancements that were also made at VMworld. While right now we are in the beginning phases of this EUC wave, I can tell ... Continue Reading » - What Do You Do With Your Swap File? – VMworld Update, Thursday
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Your VM’s Swap File that is… The inspiration for this post came from a conversation I had with a customer in the backup and recovery booth here at VMworld 2012. This particular customer was asking if EMC’s Avamar had any sort of intelligent means of isolating swap files from the GUEST OS when doing a ... Continue Reading » - VMworld 2012: A Backup & Recovery Preview
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With all the rest of the VMworld preview posts out there, I wanted to take a moment to throw one more preview into the bucket. This preview however is directed at all of those who will be attending VMworld and have a liking for Backup & Recovery. Ok fine…. I understand there may be just ... Continue Reading » - Post TechEd 2012 Follow Up…
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It has been several weeks now since the end of Microsoft TechEd 2012 in Orlando, and I can honestly say that the anticipation for next year’s TechEd in New Orleans is growing. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the great conversations that we had with you our customers at the EMC Booth. While there were some ... Continue Reading » - It’s a Microsoft (TechEd) World After All…
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I will start out by re-assuring my readers, I will do my best to avoid getting the Disney song of a similar title into your head! On the other hand, I know that for some of you that particular attraction brings back some great childhood memories! So, if you want, go ahead and hum it ... Continue Reading » - EMC Backup & Recovery Hands-On Labs Bonanza at EMC World 2012!
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Well folks, if I take a look at my trusty countdown clock that I keep on my desk here in the office we have just about 11 days, 280 hours, 16831 minutes, or 1009886..5..4..3 seconds until EMC World. Now I am keeping such a close eye on the time for two reasons, excitement and nervous ... Continue Reading »
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The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part I
 Evolving 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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