For the past couple of weeks now, my colleagues and I have been talking about the past, present and future of backup. A good deal of this conversation has centered on the lightning-fast adoption of purpose-built backup appliances (PBBA) worldwide. And while there’s no question PBBA isn’t your grandmother’s backup and recovery, is it really ...

According to a new IDC report a whole lot of you do. In fact, you’re deploying purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) far faster than market researchers had forecast and industry pundits ever thought you would. And the numbers are impressive indeed – even to those of us in the business. Just look at IDC’s latest data: ...

I don’t know about you, but I have a love/hate relationship with New Years. I love it because we’re given a blank slate (of sorts). I hate it because with the blank slate comes certain expectations. And from a professional standpoint, since the timing of New Year’s doesn’t necessarily align with the start of the ...

If you were following us (@EMCBackup) on Twitter last week, you know we were at Gartner’s annual Data Center Conference in Vegas.  It was my first time attending this particular event and my first non-vendor-sponsored event of the year.  A nice change of pace for sure! As I’ve mentioned, as a former analyst, one of ...

It’s the time of year regular gym-goers dread; the proverbial lull before the storm. In just a few short weeks, droves of well-intentioned New Year’s “Resolutioners” will hit the gym en masse, and for several weeks, gym life as we know it will change. Parking spaces, gym equipment and floor space will all become highly ...

I was doing a little reading this weekend – catching up on the virtual stack of assorted articles, papers, industry research and news articles that had accumulated in my inbox over the past few weeks – when I came across an interesting InfoWorld post: 7 IT Superheroes – and Their Fatal Flaws. Given The Backup ...

You may have noticed The Backup Window is sporting a new look these days, and I’ve got to say I like it! Whoever said pink is the new black is wrong; it’s the new blue. In all seriousness, in recognition of breast cancer awareness month and in support of “EMC Fights Cancer,” a global community ...

If there’s one thing about which industry experts seem to agree, it’s that when it comes to virtualization and its transformational effects on IT, “we ain’t seen nothing yet!” Consider the following data points from a recent ESG Research Report.* While 61% of the organizations ESG surveyed had deployed server virtualization in a production or ...

If your life is anything like mine, it’s a whirl of activity, and weekends are no exceptions. My Saturdays are consumed with yard and house-related chores, leaving Sundays to menu planning, food shopping and meal prepping (okay, to be fair, I don’t do as much “prepping” as I do “planning”). So, when I see the ...

For those of you who don’t know me and haven’t had a chance yet to skim through the bios on this site, I came to EMC by way of HDS, the Enterprise Strategy Group and InfoStor. And while life on the vendor side (endearingly referred to as the “dark side” by many of my analyst ...

Well, I’m just back from VMworld 2011, and I know I can’t stop thinking and talking about all that I heard, saw and experienced in Vegas this week. And I think it would be almost criminal if we – all 19,000+ show attendees – kept all this good stuff to ourselves. (Not that we could ...

Yes, folks, we’ve reached an inflection point!  Maybe it was sparked by Apple’s iCloud announcement earlier this summer or the more predictable or natural effect of technology adoption as explained by Roger’s diffusion of innovations theory, or a combination thereof. It doesn’t really matter.  The important thing is we are starting to think and talk ...

A recent market analysis report from IDC shines a bright spotlight on the rapidly growing PBBA market. And while PBBA doesn’t roll off the tongue like PB&J quite yet, it has all the signs of becoming just as much a popular favorite – well, at least among IT folks. Just consider the IDC stats/projections about ...