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Why should you honor boundaries? Last year I was skiing with a group that had lost a 13 year old friend during a ski accident. The 13 year old was skiing out of bounds with an adult when they set off an avalanche. Yes, the adult encouraged the 13 year old to take the risk ... Continue Reading » - Can You See Me Now?
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Imagine you’re on a sailboat out in the middle of the ocean. I’m talking way, way off shore. You can’t see land. You’re alone but that’s OK because you have tons of boating experience – you love adventure and are up to the challenge! You’re confident you’ve seen it all and believe you could handle ... Continue Reading » - Disk vs. Tape for Optimizing RPO & RTO: It’s Not Even Close
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When a storage disaster occurs there are two questions that immediately come to mind: Where’s my data?!, and How long will it take to restore it?! These critical questions can be answered by understanding and evaluating two specific metrics: Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) RPO looks backward to the last backup; ... Continue Reading » - Moore’s Law (Backup Administrator’s version): “Every 18 months, my pain will double.”
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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 ... Continue Reading » - Around the World: Backup in Your Words
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One of the things I truly love about my job is the interaction I get to have with customers. Whether it’s at a hands-on lab at industry events like VMworld, an EMC Executive Briefing Center or some other locale, being able to talk with customers about their environments — hearing firsthand what’s working and what’s ... Continue Reading » - Why Flexibility Is Key to Backup
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As any good wife would do, my wife has been dragging me to yoga classes over the last year and a half. Of course, she is doing this because she is concerned about my health and well-being like any good wife would be. At first I was okay with this. I mean, how bad it ... Continue Reading » - The Growing Digital Universe: What It Means For Backup
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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 ... Continue Reading » - EMC Avamar v6.0
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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 ... Continue Reading »
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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.
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