What Happens in Vegas … Will Transform Your Business – Part 2 VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) is the premier industry event geared towards accelerating partners’ businesses in Cloud computing. There were hundreds of technical sessions, exhibitors, demos and boot camps. EMC’s partner boot camp was standing room only. Chad Sakac (@sakacc) kicked things off with ...

As many of you may know, back in 2009 EMC’s archiving solution, EmailXtender, was replaced with a next generation archiving solution, EMC SourceOne, a generalized object platform that supports archiving for email as well as Microsoft SharePoint and file system data. And, as with any newly architected solution, customers move to the new platform by ...

Over the past couple of years, one of the key themes for NetWorker has been to make it easier to maintain and license. Included in this has been the consolidation of database and application modules. Previously, NetWorker depended on a lot of different modules for various database and application protection and many vendors still do ...

Calling all partners! VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2012 Feb 12 -16 in Las Vegas offers a fantastic conference to accelerate your business and learn how VMware and VMware Partners solutions can transform your customers’ data centers for new levels of efficiencies and cost savings. Don’t gamble by missing this conference – register today! A few ...

Every Moo Down in Moo-ville Liked tape backups a lot… But the Grinch, Who lived just north of Moo-ville, Did NOT! The Grinch hated tape backups! He considered it treason! Now, some might ask why. But there’s not just one reason. It could be that he hated working all through the night. It could be, ...

You don’t know what you don’t know… I’d like to say that in the world of backup and recovery ignorance is bliss, but it’s not. What we don’t know about our backup environments today will – just as we can’t avoid the tax man – come back to bite us down the road. The problem ...

I had the opportunity this week to attend the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) convention in Chicago. Now, you might think this is an odd place for EMC – much less a backup guy – to show up at, and, well, in some respects it is. However, when you consider the rapid growth rate ...

I am sleeping much better lately, but that’s because I recently purchased a new mattress. We all know a good night’s sleep is critical for good health and a productive mind. But, as much as I would like to believe that getting a new mattress will solve all your sleeping woes, the reality is unless ...

One of the things I miss living abroad is the connection with American politics. In particular, I miss the State of the Union address. I’m not exactly sure why, but I find it reassuring to have the President address Congress and give his views on the state of our Union. Not that I’m comparing myself ...

What a fantastic week I’m having! First, I see a great IDC paper that highlights the OPEX benefits of EMC NetWorker, detailing how users are protecting 1TB of data with just a .5 (!) full time employee (FTE). Now, that’s awesome stuff! Talk about putting more money back in the IT coffers. Then, I need ...

Greetings from Europe! I had a bit of an unusual experience the other day.  I was the first one into a conference room and on one of the chairs was a life jacket. No explanation – just sitting there. Of course, I found it a funny commentary on some of the meetings we have at ...

They can send a man to the moon and millions of phone calls across a fiber optic strand the width of a human hair, so why is it so difficult to backup/recover data on desktop and laptop PCs? Increasing amounts of unstructured data, ubiquitous wireless networks and a growing mobile workforce means lots of remote ...

Although report cards can strike fear in the hearts of many, we got one this summer that went right on the fridge! CRN’s annual report card (ARC) came out in August and for the second year running, EMC has earned the industry’s highest marks in the backup and recovery software category. The award is just ...

Guest post by Fred Douglis, EMC Consultant Software Engineer. When I heard the news about the recent passing of Dennis Ritchie, inventor of the C programming language and co-inventor of the UNIX operating system, I felt an acute sadness I had not anticipated. Part of my reaction was no doubt due to the unexpected nature of the news: Unlike Steve Jobs, whose poor health we had known about for several years, Dennis had kept his illness quiet. Read More »

VMware vSphere 5 is a major release that brings a wide range of improvements and new capabilities – ideal for virtualizing mission-critical applications. These include up to 32 virtual CPUs with 1 TB of RAM, VM high availability and better security. As you undergo your IT transformation, it’s time to evaluate current storage platforms and ...

  Greetings from Europe!  In my first posting, I wanted to add to The Backup Window conversation by highlighting some recent customer experiences in Europe. Like other parts of the world, customers from Europe, the Middle East and Africa trust EMC for backup, recovery and disaster recovery for data and applications.  It’s one thing for ...

It’s no secret that DBAs crave the rapid backup/restore capabilities of disk but often settle for tape for long-term retention requirements. But the question is, why? While Oracle RMAN has significantly improved the efficiency and ease of backup and recovery of Oracle environments, as Oracle databases continue to grow in size, the number of users ...

EMC backup and recovery has had an exciting year of announcements and we’re not done yet. In January, we delivered Data Domain systems that established new performance benchmarks that remain standing today.  In April, IDC released a study that shows the Purpose Built Backup Appliance market is growing at 16.6% CAGR and that EMC is ...

I had the opportunity to sit in on Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Now, I was fully expecting to hear a continuation of the Cloud and Big Data messages Joe and Pat have been delivering for the past year, and I did. But what I wasn’t expecting was ...

In my last post, we took a look at the results of running Data Domain Boost on an application server versus on a storage node in a 2TB Exchange 2010 mailbox environment. The results painted a very pretty backup picture, showing a significant reduction in the backup window (i.e., the time it took to complete the ...