If you were following us (@EMCBackup) on Twitter last week, you know we were at Gartner’s annual Data Center Conference in Vegas.  It was my first time attending this particular event and my first non-vendor-sponsored event of the year.  A nice change of pace for sure! As I’ve mentioned, as a former analyst, one of ...

I had the opportunity this week to attend the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) convention in Chicago. Now, you might think this is an odd place for EMC – much less a backup guy – to show up at, and, well, in some respects it is. However, when you consider the rapid growth rate ...

I had the opportunity to sit in on Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger’s keynote at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco. Now, I was fully expecting to hear a continuation of the Cloud and Big Data messages Joe and Pat have been delivering for the past year, and I did. But what I wasn’t expecting was ...

For most of IT, riding technology curves is like jumping on a kid’s trampoline: dangerous, sure, but oh-so exhilarating (note: ignore trampoline manufacturer’s “weight limits” at your own peril). Faster processors, larger disk capacities, flash storage and higher-performance networking enable new applications, drive server and storage virtualization and allow businesses to generate and analyze data ...

Yes, folks, we’ve reached an inflection point!  Maybe it was sparked by Apple’s iCloud announcement earlier this summer or the more predictable or natural effect of technology adoption as explained by Roger’s diffusion of innovations theory, or a combination thereof. It doesn’t really matter.  The important thing is we are starting to think and talk ...

Over the last little while, we have become used to seeing discussions of data and storage for Big Data. As if Big Data possesses a unique set of challenges around the acquisition, management, replication, and protection of the data. And so it does. For now. Because after reviewing the latest set of statistics from the ...