What Happens in Vegas … Will Transform Your Business – Part 2 VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) is the premier industry event geared towards accelerating partners’ businesses in Cloud computing. There were hundreds of technical sessions, exhibitors, demos and boot camps. EMC’s partner boot camp was standing room only. Chad Sakac (@sakacc) kicked things off with ...

Calling all partners! VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2012 Feb 12 -16 in Las Vegas offers a fantastic conference to accelerate your business and learn how VMware and VMware Partners solutions can transform your customers’ data centers for new levels of efficiencies and cost savings. Don’t gamble by missing this conference – register today! A few ...

It’s that time of year again, and, no, I’m not talking about the time to make resolutions. You should have already done that. (And if you’re surprised that it’s 2012, put down the DLT IV tape cartridge, turn off the Chumbawamba CD and walk outside.) It’s the time of year when bloggers use the “reflections ...

No series of blog posts, regardless of wittiness, insight and general brilliance, can provide a prescriptive answer about how to protect your VMs. (Of course, if you do find some blog posts with wittiness, insight, and brilliance, please send them; I’d love to see how it’s done. Except for Chad’s posts. Don’t send those.) The ...

During World War I, Will Rogers, noted American humorist, was asked by a young reporter how he would stop the U-boat attacks on ships, to which Rogers responded, “Boil the ocean.” But when pressed for how he would do that, Rogers quickly replied, “I’m just the idea man here. Get someone else to work out ...

I am sleeping much better lately, but that’s because I recently purchased a new mattress. We all know a good night’s sleep is critical for good health and a productive mind. But, as much as I would like to believe that getting a new mattress will solve all your sleeping woes, the reality is unless ...

They can send a man to the moon and millions of phone calls across a fiber optic strand the width of a human hair, so why is it so difficult to backup/recover data on desktop and laptop PCs? Increasing amounts of unstructured data, ubiquitous wireless networks and a growing mobile workforce means lots of remote ...

VMware vSphere 5 is a major release that brings a wide range of improvements and new capabilities – ideal for virtualizing mission-critical applications. These include up to 32 virtual CPUs with 1 TB of RAM, VM high availability and better security. As you undergo your IT transformation, it’s time to evaluate current storage platforms and ...

What would you rather do recover 2GB or 500GB? Recovery is the final end game – after all, it is the point of backing up. With Avamar, files can be recovered into a VM without the need for agents within the guest OS.  But this is not the revolution. The revolution is about “changed block ...

We’re pleased that the inimitable Chad Sakac has climbed through The Backup Window; until now, our sitcom lacked a hyper-caffeinated neighbor. We recently posted Chad’s tech preview about the Avamar’s vCloud Protector. If you haven’t read it yet, I’ll wait. Ideally, I’d find a way to lambast Chad’s post, insult his ancestors, and mock his ...

At VMworld this week, IT got a good glimpse into the future of VMware and the journey that lies before us as we continue to extend virtualization across our data centers to more servers, more applications and more desktops. And there was lots of discussion (too much to share in any one blog) about what ...

In Heidi’s recent post PBBA — A New Twist on a Popular Backup Approach, she highlights IDC’s observation that integration is one of three key factors fueling the backup appliance market.  A great example of this type of end-to-end integration is EMC Data Domain Boost software, which is tightly integrated with Avamar, NetWorker and third-party ...

I spend a lot of time talking to people about Avamar. I think it is a great application that pretty radically reinvents backup architectures. It does so many things well, and has consistently been ahead of the curve in terms of delivering advanced backup technologies. For example, Avamar was one of the first to market ...

Today EMC is announcing a new version of EMC Avamar software and hardware. With the latest release come a ton of new features, bigger, better, faster hardware, and support for integrating Avamar with Data Domain. So, without further preamble, let’s jump into what is new in Avamar v6.0: On the hardware side, the new release ...