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The Backup Administrator’s View of the VMware Business Process Desktop
| September 21, 2012
Besides the VMware vSphere Data Protection announcement which you have read about here on the blog, little time has been spent on discussing a lot of the End-User Computing (EUC) announcements and advancements that were also made at VMworld.  While right now we are in the beginning phases of this EUC wave, I can tell ...
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What Do You Do With Your Swap File? – VMworld Update, Thursday
| August 31, 2012
Your VM’s Swap File that is…  The inspiration for this post came from a conversation I had with a customer in the backup and recovery booth here at VMworld 2012. This particular customer was asking if EMC’s Avamar had any sort of intelligent means of isolating swap files from the GUEST OS when doing a ...
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VMworld Rocks! – VMworld Update, Wednesday
| August 30, 2012
Guest Post by Steve Flynn, Director Product Marketing, EMC Backup Recovery Systems ‘Shot through the heart, and you’re to blame, you give Love – a bad name!’ …… wow, was that a great show last night or what?  Bon Jovi can still rock the house, and VMworld can sure throw a fantastic party.   When I ...
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Backing up in VMware – VMworld Update, Tuesday
| August 29, 2012
Guest Post by Daniel Miller, Principal Product Manager,  Avamar Virtualization A lot of exciting things happening here at VMworld! This morning Steve Herrod presented VMware’s vision of the future of “end-user computing.” There was a lot of discussion around redefining the user experience. I think this ties in very well with a lot of things that ...
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VMworld 2012: A Backup & Recovery Preview
| August 23, 2012
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 ...
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Get Out and Vote!
| June 6, 2012
It’s hard to believe it’s that time of year, but VMworld sessions are once again up for vote. So, at the risk of sounding like Ryan Seacrest, to ensure your favorites make it to the next round, you gotta go on-line today (polls close Friday) and vote. Stephen Manley  is on the ballot to present “Accelerating ...
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Tech Preview: Avamar vCloud Protector
| September 15, 2011
At VMworld 2011, session SPO3977 was called “Next-Generation Storage and Backup for Your Cloud”.   We discussed the current state of the art around backup and recovery in the VMware context – which is about vCenter integration, the vStorage APIs for Data Protection for agentless backup and single step file level restore, use of Changed Block ...
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Sifting Through the VMworld Chatter to Find Your Pot of Gold
| September 9, 2011
For those of you who don’t know me and haven’t had a chance yet to skim through the bios on this site, I came to EMC by way of HDS, the Enterprise Strategy Group and InfoStor. And while life on the vendor side (endearingly referred to as the “dark side” by many of my analyst ...
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Making the Right Backup Choices … Don’t Get Caught with Your Pants on the Ground
| September 2, 2011
My three- year-old daughter Sophia has difficulty making decisions about what clothes to wear. Sunday morning, before church, she cycled through four fancy dresses in 10 minutes. As we slid from “fashionably late” to “in danger of missing post-mass donuts,” I injected some male leadership. “Pick anything. You’ll look beautiful. We have to go. The ...
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What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas?
| September 2, 2011
Well, I’m just back from VMworld 2011, and I know I can’t stop thinking and talking about all that I heard, saw and experienced in Vegas this week. And I think it would be almost criminal if we – all 19,000+ show attendees – kept all this good stuff to ourselves. (Not that we could ...
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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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