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’ ...
Guest Post by Peter Smails Sr. Director, Product Marketing at EMC Oh wait, this is Oracle World. If I closed my eyes I swear I could have been at EMC World, but I’ll come back to that later. Another good day at Oracle Open World where one of the recurring themes is ‘hardware and software, engineered ...
If you’re like me, no matter what you do, your to-do list doesn’t seem to get any shorter. Laundry piles seem to reappear overnight; there’s always lawn to be cut and gardens to be weeded (does it seem like your yard gets bigger each season, or is it just me?); appliances to be fixed; pets ...
Data protection is like insurance – throw money at the chance that something will go wrong and hope that it doesn’t. But, with cloud computing models and the growing relevance of IT-as-a-service, data protection can make money for the business as well as contribute to the value of the data center. Because most organizations leverage ...
The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part IIArchitecture is sexy. The proof? Brad Pitt loves architecture. Brad Pitt has twice been named "Sexiest Man Alive. Donald Trump's garish, obnoxious buildings indicate that hates architecture. Donald Trump has never been named "Sexiest Man in the Room," even when he's alone.
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