“More people choose EMC Backup.” Our Barcelona airport signs may not be as dramatic as Gaudi’s El Drac at the entrance to Park Guell, but world-renowned mosaic artists are so hard to find these days. I’ve never understood marketers’ glee about advertising at the airport during other companies’ conferences (e.g. Symantec Vision Barcelona 2012), but ...
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, businesses throughout the Northeast, particularly New York and New Jersey, are still struggling to assess the damage and get back to business as usual. With one of their most valuable assets compromised–their information— hopefully they are prepared with a solid disaster recovery plan. For years, the standard disaster recovery ...
Nobody said it better than Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet – “Just the facts ma’am.” As Sgt. Friday interviewed people to solve a crime, he often heard lots of extraneous blather and a good deal of erroneous exaggerations! I’m sure you have personally run into this when exploring the worldwide web. So ...
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 ...
“With the introduction of the EMC Avamar Business Edition, mid-market companies with limited budgets and IT resources can finally experience and enjoy the benefits of a turnkey, backup and recovery solution with integrated data deduplication...."
Throughout this political season, I’ve been reminded of a blog I wrote about year ago in which I shared the findings of a poll in which social-media website Hunch asked more than 400,000 computers users about their wine preferences. The results were polarizing, not to mention fun to interpret and extrapolate on, with PC users ...
In June of 2012 a 26 year old climber went out on a solo climb and took a tragic fall because he chose to carry but not use gear to protect him from falling. As I read the story I realized that storage and DBAs often times make decisions based on their comfort level and ...
Backup transformation can be game-changing, but it is a process. Watch the video to learn more.
“I’ll walk the halls, chatting with engineers about our strategy. I’ll build a vibrant online backup community with my blog. I’ll review every architectural and design specification. I’ll spend each Friday working ‘a day in the life of an engineer’ across the different teams, to understand our people and their challenges. I’ll visit every engineering site twice a year, and every key sales area once a year...."
After reading part 1 of this blog series, I’m sure you’re all dying to know what does the future of fire-fighting, and thus backup and recovery look like? From a Backup and Recovery perspective, it means consolidated, optimized storage architecture, self-service, policy based backup, and federated control and centralized visibility of all backups. This naturally ...
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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