Disk vs. Tape for Optimizing RPO & RTO: It’s Not Even Close
When a storage disaster occurs there are two questions that immediately come to mind: Where’s my data?!, and How long will it take to restore it?! These critical questions can be answered by...
View ArticleCan You See Me Now?
Imagine you’re on a sailboat out in the middle of the ocean. I’m talking way, way off shore. You can’t see land. You’re alone but that’s OK because you have tons of boating experience – you love...
View ArticleEMC NetWorker Setting Boundaries
Why should you honor boundaries? Last year I was skiing with a group that had lost a 13 year old friend during a ski accident. The 13 year old was skiing out of bounds with an adult when they set off...
View ArticleEMC Avamar v6.0
Today EMC is announcing a new version of EMC Avamar software and hardware. With the latest release come a ton of new features, bigger, better, faster hardware, and support for integrating Avamar with...
View ArticleThe Growing Digital Universe: What It Means For Backup
Over the last little while, we have become used to seeing discussions of data and storage for Big Data. As if Big Data possesses a unique set of challenges around the acquisition, management,...
View ArticleWhy Flexibility Is Key to Backup
As any good wife would do, my wife has been dragging me to yoga classes over the last year and a half. Of course, she is doing this because she is concerned about my health and well-being like any good...
View ArticleAround the World: Backup in Your Words
One of the things I truly love about my job is the interaction I get to have with customers. Whether it’s at a hands-on lab at industry events like VMworld, an EMC Executive Briefing Center or some...
View ArticleMoore’s Law (Backup Administrator’s version): “Every 18 months, my pain will...
For most of IT, riding technology curves is like jumping on a kid’s trampoline: dangerous, sure, but oh-so exhilarating (note: ignore trampoline manufacturer’s “weight limits” at your own peril)....
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