One of the final highlights here at EMC World 2014 was the announcing of the inaugural winners of the EMC “Connect” award. The EMC Technology Connect program consists of 3rd party solution offerings that have been certified by EMC to…
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EMC World Report – Can EMC Beat Google And Amazon With ECS?
At EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas, EMC Cloud Strategy continued to take shape. EMC, at least at this point, wants to be the arms merchant to the cloud provider market, enabling cloud providers and large enterprises to either compete…
EMC Announces The Data Domain DD2200
Beyond Entry Level Protection Storage Today at EMC World, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division announced the release of the new Data Domain DD2200 platform. This new system is designed to function as the new “entry-level” deduplication appliance in the…
Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, Deduplication, EMC, EMC World, Multi-Tenant
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What Is The Data Protection Continuum?
In an era where business end-users have increasingly more options and autonomy for deciding how they will protect their application data, it is critically important for today’s IT organizations to provide more choices. By building a data protection infrastructure that…
Tagged with: Cloud, Continuous Data Protection, Data Protection, EMC, NAS, Protection, SAN, Shared Backup, Software Defined
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What Does Software-Defined Mean For Data Protection?
What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, EMC, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine. Protection
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Why IT Needs to Offer Data Protection As A Service
Technologies like application virtualization have given end users increasingly more choice in today’s IT marketplace. New business services can be rapidly spun up on-demand, either in the four walls of the data-center or out into a cloud service provider’s (CSP)…
Tagged with: Application, Backup, Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Infrastructure, Protection
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Develop A Service Level Objective Driven Data Protection Strategy
Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.
Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Protection, Provisioning, Reliability, RO, RPO, RTO, SLO
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What Is Protection Storage?
What is protection storage? Is this merely a way to re-package the role of purpose-built data deduplication appliances or are there some unique attributes to protection storage that warrants closer scrutiny from technology decision makers? In short, protection storage drives…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Domain, Deduplication, EMC, Protection Storage, Recovery
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Correcting EMC – Tape is More Innovative Than Disk
It happened again, another industry veteran has dismissed tape as an obsolete technology. This time it was an EMC executive responding to the tired question “is tape dead yet?”, posed in a recent TechTarget interview. His response was “There is…
Tagged with: EMC, Information technology, Linear Tape File System, LTO, SpectraLogic, Tape, Tape drive, TechTarget
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VMAX Made Easy
We concluded our full day of briefings at EMC by meeting with the VMAX product team. The VMAX product family represents EMC’s top of the line, enterprise class storage solution. While there are some similarities between the midrange VNX and…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, EMCbreifingDay, IOPS, VMAX, VNX, XtremIO
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