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Forget the Drapes… How’s Your Plumbing?
| May 17, 2013
A little more than 10 years ago, I wrote an article for InfoStor magazine exposing IT's Dirty Little Secret: Backup was grossly inefficient - and IT knew it. Back then, nobody talked about the backup problem because there was little that could be done about it.
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Have You Taken “The Repeat Test”?
| April 19, 2013
I’ve gotten into the (good) habit of checking LinkedIn a couple of times a day. I do a quick scan of my profile, groups and the headline news. It doesn’t take me but a minute (as my southern friends say), and I generally glean something useful from it. Time well spent. This week, a post ...
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“Those Guys” or “The Other Guys”…It’s All About the Data
| April 12, 2013
 Las Vegas is certainly the city of choice this spring when it comes to IT conferences! In the past three months, I have visited here twice already. We aren’t even through April! Here is the Best Part, I along with other members of the EMC team will be back here AGAIN in May for the ...
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Cloud Driving the Economy
| April 4, 2013
From tech startups (like mine) to Fortune 200 tech companies (like mine) alike, cloud has been a global engine of growth as well as as an enabler of rapid innovation. And even through the recent recession, cloud adoption has continued to skyrocket leading to an entire economy being built around it (PaaS, SaaS, ITaaS, BaaS, XaaS...). Did you know that cloud will generate 14 million jobs worldwide by 2013?
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Storage DNA (and Beer) – Brilliant!
| March 29, 2013
I read an article a few weeks ago in The Economist about test-tube data. It begins in a similar way to most stories we hear in the data and storage industry. Data growth is massive, becoming more and more unwieldy and expensive. IT budgets (and budgets in general) aren’t keeping pace with that growth. We in ...
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Backup as a Service: The On-Ramp to Cloud Services
| March 28, 2013
In a recently published white paper by IDC, Program Vice President, Laura DuBois outlines and reviews the challenges IT departments are having with meeting the data backup SLAs required by the business.   Laura discusses how cloud services can fundamentally change the cost model around backup and how enterprises are leveraging these new backup-as-a-service (BaaS) offerings ...
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How to Ensure Data Protection As You Move to the Cloud
| March 20, 2013
According to Mark Prahl, a high-tech business professional who has been talking or writing about products and gadgets for business or personal consumption for some time, data protection needs are more acute for as-a-service cloud models and require new approaches. What can you do to ensure data protection as you move to the cloud? Prahl explains ...
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Because the CIO Said So
| March 18, 2013
CIOs are thinking differently these days. Read the blog to find out what IDG found was top of mind for CIOs in 2013, and what your organization's "time to" may say about its IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) readiness. (The full IDG Infographic can be viewed on the EMC website.)
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Cloudy with Restricted Visibility
| February 28, 2013
In my blog Cloud Control to Major Tom I talked about the top five reasons enterprises don’t leverage cloud technology. This month I want to focus on the first bullet on that list: data privacy concerns.  While many people consider this as a top inhibitor to cloud adoption, the reality is that most businesses are ...
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We Keep Getting Better
| February 12, 2013
Check out the new face of The Backup Window. More Blogs. More Social. More Info. Enjoy.
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The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part I Evolving 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. Read More...
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