Consolidated BACKUP and ARCHIVING means better application performance, reduced primary storage costs, and ensured compliance
| June 25, 2012
International Computerware, Inc. (ICI), a leading global provider of information technology solutions and consulting, had a problem.  The company’s highly mobile workforce relies heavily on email and document sharing, requiring access to current and past messages and attachments. As email mailboxes became clogged, the performance of the company’s Microsoft Exchange server began to slow down. ...
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Up, Up and Away… PBBA Market Soars, EMC Lead Widens
| June 20, 2012
The latest numbers are out, and PBBA numbers are up — way up! (For those of you unfamiliar with the terminology, PBBA stands for purpose-built backup appliance. Also known as disk backup appliances or deduplication storage systems.)   Not only did the PBBA market soar, but our market share also grew substantially. According to the latest IDC research report, ...
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vFabric Data Director… Making Ingest and Backup Better
| June 14, 2012
Every bit of time I learn and play with vFabric Data Director – the more I think it’s really, really cool. As a reminder, vFabric Data Director “cloudifies” the world of databases: It makes elastic resource pools of all the resources database need (CPU, memory, storage) It makes each instance completely isolated. This has security ...
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How Prepared Are You?
| June 13, 2012
Accidents will happen if you ride long enough. The question is, are you prepared for one? Anyone who knows me knows that I’m an avid cyclist.  I started road racing at a fairly young age with a local team, and in the course of our training and races we routinely found ourselves screaming down hills ...
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How’s Your “Time To”?
| June 8, 2012
If you’re like most organizations we talk to, the time it’s taking you to roll out a new application, analyze new data sets, reach virtualization goals, etc., isn’t what you’d like it to be or — more importantly — what lines of business want it to be. Your “time to” is simply too high. And that ...
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It’s a Microsoft (TechEd) World After All…
| June 6, 2012
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 ...
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Get Out and Vote!
| June 6, 2012
It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year, but VMworld sessions are once again up for vote. So, at the risk of sounding like Ryan Seacrest, to ensure your favorites make it to the next round, you gotta go on-line today (polls close Friday) and vote. Stephen Manley  is on the ballot to present “Accelerating ...
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The Road to Transformation Went Straight through EMC World
| May 31, 2012
Wow! I’ve been to EMC Worlds before (three if I remember correctly) but not for several years and never as an EMC employee. Boy, have things changed! And I’m not just talking about the size of the crowd, which has grown to more than 10,000+ users; the high-octane spectacular that’s become the Tucci and Gelsinger ...
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Transform and Experience Backup Freedom
| May 30, 2012
Will you be assimilated by the BORG or transform and achieve freedom?  So you Trekkies know what I am talking about, but for everyone else let me explain.  EMC World’s image depicts the transformation from a hard wired robot-like humanoid (BORG) to a highly evolved human.  This can be true for your traditional IT environments ...
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What’s Faster Than a Speeding Bullet and Leaps the Competition in a Single Bound?
| May 30, 2012
Although the new Data Domain DD990 may not exactly be a superhero, it certainly has left the competition scrambling for kryptonite.  Although a new system alone would be enough of a product launch for some companies, we didn’t stop there.  Last week at EMC World, along with the DD990, we also announced new Data Domain ...
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