EMC announces another step towards backupless-backups

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Last week, in London, EMC made several announcements – many of which hinged on the VMAX3 platform – but the one of most interest to me was ProtectPoint, where those new VMAX machines will be able to send their backup data directly from production storage to protection storage (EMC Data Domain) without an intermediary backup … Read more

Workload-enabled Data Protection is the Future … and that is a good thing

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When asked about “what is the future for datacenter data protection,” my most frequent answer is that DP becomes less about dedicated backup admins with dedicated backup infrastructure … and more about DP savvy being part of the production workload, co-managed by the DP and workload administrators. In the last few years, we’ve seen a … Read more

Data Protection Impressions from the Dell Analyst Conference 2014

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I recently had the opportunity to attend the Dell Annual Analyst Conference (DAAC), where Michael Dell and the senior leadership team gave updates on their businesses and cast a very clear strategy around four core pillars: Transform — to the Cloud Connect — with mobility Inform — through Big Data Protect Protect?! YAY!!  As a … Read more

vBlog: Wrap-Up on Backup from EMC World 2014 – part 2, strategy

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Last week, I published a video summary of the data protection product news from EMC World 2014, with the help of some of my EMC Data Protection friends. To follow that up, I asked EMC’s Rob Emsley to knit the pieces together around the Data Protection strategy from EMC: Essentially, what I call the Data … Read more

vBlog: Wrap-Up on Backup from EMC World 2014 – part 1, products

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During EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas last month, I had the chance to visit with several EMC product managers on what was announced from a product perspective, as well as overall data protection strategy.  Enjoy the video: For such a broad range of products within the EMC DP portfolio, it is impressive that while … Read more