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 ...
One of my first assignments at EMC was to learn and deliver the Centera customer presentation – an overview of the company’s most successful archiving platform to date. At the time, as a new employee, I had no perspective on why it was important and certainly had no idea that the topic would be even ...
Last weekend a fire broke out in my Boston apartment building (left). Of course it was the middle of the night. And of course it was cold and rainy outside when we had to evacuate. When the alarm went off at 3AM, I contemplated shoving a pillow over my head to drown out the noise ...
Sunshine on a cloudy day How appropriate a title this is for my blog! I planned to work at home today to focus on writing this blog about backup to the cloud. As I look out my window, I see a sky full of clouds, yet sunshine reflects down onto the start of the colorful ...
There’s no question about it – our world has become data-centric. Mountains and mountains of content-rich data surround us, fuel our businesses and touch virtually every aspect of our daily lives. And while this data enables us to achieve things we’ve never done before, think in ways we never dreamed of and reach people we ...
Let’s face it, managing multiple backup applications or trying to adapt traditional backup applications for a highly virtualized environment is not only challenging, but far from optimal. It’s not so different than watching my favorite football team, that always strives for optimal performance, in a very dynamic game. Scoring involves analysis of the defense, proper ...
Guest Post by Michael R. Brown, Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Now, where was I……? Oh yes, I was listing the many benefits of archiving email when I got yanked off stage! Hmmm, where did I leave off……? Ah yes…IT and one of the many benefits…. Reduces IT call centre traffic. How many ...
Well, it’s going on three months since we launched NetWorker 8.0 on that fateful day of July 10, 2012. While engineering was busy tying the bow on a two-year development effort, Marketing went into high gear (pun intended!!) to demonstrate the excitement we were feeling around this product launch. Hopefully, you were able to join ...
After Tuesday’s keynotes by a couple of the most well respected CEOs in the industry (Joe Tucci and Larry Ellison), I didn’t think today could top it – but it did! Today, the focus shifted from IT transformation in general to backup transformation. This morning I discussed ‘Boosting Oracle Backup and Recovery with Data Domain’ ...
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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