Lego Architecture sets are among the greatest inventions of the last decade. My seven-year-old son Connor loves to show off his Lego creations, but my wife doesn’t really appreciate the aesthetic value of a Lego Death Star. Thankfully, Lego solved the problem by creating beautiful reproductions of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier and ...
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 ...
With all the rest of the VMworld preview posts out there, I wanted to take a moment to throw one more preview into the bucket. This preview however is directed at all of those who will be attending VMworld and have a liking for Backup & Recovery. Ok fine…. I understand there may be just ...
The latest numbers are out, and PBBA numbers are up — way up! (For those of you unfamiliar with the terminology, PBBA stands for purpose-built backup appliance. Also known as disk backup appliances or deduplication storage systems.) Not only did the PBBA market soar, but our market share also grew substantially. According to the latest IDC research report, ...
If you’re like most organizations we talk to, the time it’s taking you to roll out a new application, analyze new data sets, reach virtualization goals, etc., isn’t what you’d like it to be or — more importantly — what lines of business want it to be. Your “time to” is simply too high. And that ...
Guest Post by Chuck Dufresne, Senior Product Marketing Manager, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Do you ever wonder… “Are my disk-based backups safe? Are my backups teetering towards a fall, like a high wire act? Since Data Domain took the backup and recovery industry by storm in 2001 we have witnessed the general decline of physical ...
Sometimes those DBAs seem like they get all the fun – don’t they? Backup Admins never get a chance to be excited about anything, and when they do, DBAs just yawn, or give us weird looks. And to hurt you even more, it seems that database application developers never really think fully about backup and ...
When I was younger, I believed chronicling the past was far simpler than predicting the future. Little did I know that “history” means “incessant squabbling over what really happened in the past” (did you know there are multiple active magazines about the American Civil War?). On the other hand, people very rarely check on the ...
According to a new IDC report a whole lot of you do. In fact, you’re deploying purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs) far faster than market researchers had forecast and industry pundits ever thought you would. And the numbers are impressive indeed – even to those of us in the business. Just look at IDC’s latest data: ...
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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