“Well, at least you brought lunch.” – Every CIO’s reaction after I tell them we’re going to talk about backup. Backup is broken. Backups are slow and restores are even slower. Even worse, application administrators assume they’re unprotected because they have no visibility into backup processes. To compensate for these limitations, IT teams deploy point ...
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.)
While companies now understand that information drives their business, many have yet to consider the impact backup can have on their bottom line. IT organizations that drive a service-provider approach to backup can accelerate both IT and business initiatives. To deliver backup in an IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) model, however, the team must transform both their approach ...
Our team of all-star experts explain how to get the visibility you need, and how the completely redesigned EMC Data Protection Advisor 6 will put you back in charge of the game. So, have your questions ready! Join Backup Game Day II Monday, March 11, at 11am ET/8am PT.
Are you primed and ready for 2013? I certainly am. In fact, I’m more excited about the year ahead than I’ve been in the 15-plus years I’ve been in this industry. No exaggeration. And the reason is simple: IT transformation. And, no, I'm not talking technology here.
“More people choose EMC Backup.” Our Barcelona airport signs may not be as dramatic as Gaudi’s El Drac at the entrance to Park Guell, but world-renowned mosaic artists are so hard to find these days. I’ve never understood marketers’ glee about advertising at the airport during other companies’ conferences (e.g. Symantec Vision Barcelona 2012), but ...
Guest Blog by Mark Galpin, Senior Manager, EMC EMEA Marketing, Syndicated from ThoughtFeast Washing clothes is one of those tasks made a lot easier by the use of a washing machine. A piece of equipment that has been purposely designed to the task in hand, in other words an appliance. Now I am sure you could make ...
Backup transformation can be game-changing, but it is a process. Watch the video to learn more.
“I’ll walk the halls, chatting with engineers about our strategy. I’ll build a vibrant online backup community with my blog. I’ll review every architectural and design specification. I’ll spend each Friday working ‘a day in the life of an engineer’ across the different teams, to understand our people and their challenges. I’ll visit every engineering site twice a year, and every key sales area once a year...."
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 ...
The Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part IEvolving 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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