ESG Lab Validation – EMC VNX Total Protection Pack

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One of the coolest parts about going from a single-vendor to ESG has been the chance to see IT from a broader perspective. As a long-time ‘software-guy’, this was a chance to re-discover the power of hardware, particularly as it relates to data protection.   This week, the ESG Lab team released its most recent … Read more

Step 1 – Get Your Data Out of the Building

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If you find yourself on mailing lists from backup vendors, channel partners and media portals (or watch twitter for backup/storage topics) … then you have likely seen advertisements like: Five Easy Steps to Disaster Recovery Don’t miss this revolutionary, exciting, innovative, and informational … Yada yada yada, blah blah … Those webcasts/whitepapers aren’t bad … … Read more

Webinar: IT Challenges for Remote Offices

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ESG recently delivered its quarterly research webinar – with this one discussing the IT Challenges of Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) The top ROBO IT priorities are clear: Improve the end-user experience and bolster information security. A typical enterprise with 5,000 or more employees has an average of 394 physical locations. Many of these are remote … Read more

Teaching the three P’s in School

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Zack Whittaker at ZDnet wrote a good post (zd.net/nWEATt) on how schools may be teaching Word and PowerPoint, but kids are unaware of data privacy and protection issues. I would go one ‘P’ further.  Along with Protection (of data) and Privacy (of information), add Piracy (of software and media). Last year, I took the opportunity … Read more