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EMC Pivoting to SDS & Cloud?

The keynote presentations at EMC World seemed very different to me this year. I’ve been to several EMC World conferences, and this one seemed to suggest a pivot for the company that we followed for so many years. To me,

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NAB Vendors Discover Data Protection

I was pleasantly surprised when I visited storage vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, suffice it to say that it is massive. It is Las Vegas’ second largest

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Easing Amazon EBS Snapshot Pain, for Free

It’s a major pain to manage snapshots in Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS). It’s essentially a single command line with very limited capabilities. The result is that developers writing applications for AWS find themselves building tools to

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 3 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will give you a recap of EMC World day 3

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The Time Cost of a Storage Refresh

For most data centers, periodic storage refreshes are a way of life. Many times, the storage vendor causes the refresh by pricing out-year maintenance renewals to the point that it is more cost effective to buy a new system than

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Product Analysis: Scalable NAS for the real world: Redefining NAS Storage

NAS systems have come a long way since SMB & NFS were invented in 1984, and the Dell Fluid File System is proof of that. If one hasn’t looked at a modern day NAS system, this would be a good

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Addressing Modern Recovery Requirements

A Product Analysis of Dell Rapid Recovery It’s time for a new type of backup and recovery because the old ways of backup simply do not meet the current needs of many businesses. It starts with the inefficiencies of how

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