Summer has arrived!   Most of my weekends are spent participating in activities filled with adrenaline and a little touch of risk. This weekend we were rock climbing in an area that is very popular and filled with experienced climbers.  While waiting for a route we were observing climbers in other groups. One thing that I ...

I’m new here at EMC, so perhaps it is easy, if not essential, for me to work to get to the basics of what we offer in order to be able to break it down, understand it, and ultimately, get excited about it and promote it.  And I gotta tell you, I’m very excited about ...

Last weekend I was able to get outside and enjoy the beautiful snow capped mountains around where I live.  The intent was an exhilarating back-country ski that would be emotionally relaxing.  However, the group I was with decided to discuss a rather heavy topic. The question we were discussing was: How you would react if ...

I was recently reading an article pertaining to age and athletic ability.  The not so shocking news is that athletes of any level will see a decrease in performance with age.  So yes, age does matter. How does this apply to backup? As I was reading this article it occurred to me that people getting ...

Over the past couple of years, one of the key themes for NetWorker has been to make it easier to maintain and license. Included in this has been the consolidation of database and application modules. Previously, NetWorker depended on a lot of different modules for various database and application protection and many vendors still do ...

What a fantastic week I’m having! First, I see a great IDC paper that highlights the OPEX benefits of EMC NetWorker, detailing how users are protecting 1TB of data with just a .5 (!) full time employee (FTE). Now, that’s awesome stuff! Talk about putting more money back in the IT coffers. Then, I need ...

In a recent post, EMC product marketing manager Caitlin Moore highlighted the important benefits of Data Domain’s integration with EMC Avamar and EMC NetWorker. But if you’re like me words are great, but demos are even better! You see, I’m a numbers kind of guy. So, with this in mind, I want to share some ...

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 ...