Lady Backup’s career in IT dates back before the time of the Spice Girls.
Initially I started in high tech journalism in the US and eventually transitioned to become an industry analyst. My analyst years also coincided with my education – during this period of my life I was working on my MBA.
After 7 years of going to school at night, I graduated with distinction with an Information Age MBA degree from Bentley University (at the time it was still Bentley College) located just outside of Boston. With degree in hand, what’s a restless girl to do next? This is where networking with fellow classmates led to a job at EMC. Starting our Hopkinton headquarters, I moved outside of the US with EMC International when I felt it was time for my next change.
Today, Lady Backup is an American on the loose in the world. Living outside the United States has been a fascinating experience. For the moment I call England home. But I’m feeling my next wave of restlessness coming. Here are two hints: I love sunshine and I’m improving my Spanish.
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 ...
Guest Blog by Mark Galpin, Senior Manager, EMC EMEA Marketing, Syndicated from ThoughtFeast Washing clothes is one of those tasks made a lot easier by the use of a washing machine. A piece of equipment that has been purposely designed to the task in hand, in other words an appliance. Now I am sure you could make ...
The final day of the Solution Pavilion at EMC World was just as busy as the rest of the days. Many people visited us to find out more about the new releases of Avamar and Data Domain. Our long time loyal NetWorker customer base came by to say hi and find out what’s coming next. ...
Greeting from sunny Dubai! I find myself in the Middle East to launch survey results about tendencies of the region around backup and recovery in the region. What we found is that the vast majority of respondents are not very confident that they can recover after an incident. The message we want to raise to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 me ...
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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