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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At VMworld this week, IT got a good glimpse into the future of VMware and the journey that lies before us as we continue to extend virtualization across our data centers to more servers, more applications and more desktops. And there was lots of discussion (too much to share in any one blog) about what ...

Another day and another VMworld gone by – well, almost. And what a week it’s been. I have the good fortune of spending most (okay, pretty much all) of my time in the Hands-On Labs (HOLs). It’s been quite the experience, to say the least. What we have been able to put together and demonstrate ...