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Data Protection in a Dell-plus-EMC World

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Earlier today, Dell announced it was acquiring EMC. While there is still much to be decided and most of this will not substantively occur until mid-2016, the scenario raises several interesting ramifications regarding data protection as each of the vendors already had an interesting road ahead into next year: Dell Dell continues to evolve, particularly … Read more

What’s New in Data Protection from EMC World 2015 – and Why It Matters

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Today, at EMC World 2015, EMC announced a significant number of new offerings and updates; starting from their core technologies (storage) and then quite literally wrapping it with a layer of “Data Protection Everywhere.” With that in mind, here are the Data Protection announcements (click here for EMC press release), with the first being that … Read more

Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL

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Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution.  The nice folks in ESG’s video studio have produced a whole series on this … in … Read more

EMC’s Data Protection portfolio now “spans” even more workloads

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There are several “disruptive” trends in IT.  And when vendors talk about disruptive, its usually in regard to some new feature/service that does things differently. But from my perspective, one of the most disruptive trends in Data Protection is that traditional workloads are leaving the data center.  According to ESG’s IT Spending Intentions 2014 report, … Read more

How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)

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VMware’s EVO RAIL is an architecture for a hyper-converged, software-defined data center in a single appliance form-factor … to be delivered by various hardware partners.  But how do you protect that all-in-one solution? For the next several weeks, ESG will be releasing a seven-part series of ESG Capsules, 2 minute video segments, where I’ll talk … Read more