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View ArticleNHS Turns 65 faced with Nicholson Challenge: Can You Teach an Old Dog New...
This week marks 65 years of the National Health System. For all the criticisms inevitably levelled at it, it’s widely acknowledged to be one of the leading health organizations in the world. Last...
View ArticleCustomers Learn About Intelligence-Driven Security in Asia Pacific
Vincent Goh, VP, Asia Pacific & Japan, RSA, The Security Division of EMC Customers from across Asia thronged to the inaugural RSA Conference Asia Pacific in Singapore. The conference also served...
View ArticleBig Data Success Starts with a Cloud Storage Strategy
By David Rubal, U.S. Federal CTO & Director of Systems Engineering, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division A recent Meritalk survey of 150 federal IT leaders found that big data solutions have the...
View ArticleThe Ongoing Challenge Of Data Migrations
One of the more painful topics in the storage business that never gets much of a public airing is data migrations: the inevitable necessity of moving all that information from one piece of hardware...
View ArticleThe Flip Side
Tomorrow, I'm guest lecturing at an MBA class. Meeting with smart, inspiring, challenging students is one of the many things I love about my job, most of which I've written about (probably more than...
View ArticleThe Right Architecture Is Priceless, Part V
A monolithic architecture can look elegant on paper, but real life engineering depends on flexibility and the ability to evolve quickly. The right architecture needs to translate into reality. Update...
View ArticleEMC Storage Essentials Training from TrainSignal
TrainSignal have recently released a training course focused on the area of EMC Storage Essentials. This course is taken by Joe Kelly from Varrow and is ideal for those IT Professionals wanting to...
View ArticleVMworld Hands on Lab – vCloud Hybrid Service
For the past couple of weeks, I have had the joy of working on the VMworld 2013 Hands on Lab with some amazing people. My Co-Captains on lab HBD-1302 are Eric Hammersley (@erichammersley) and Raj...
View ArticleUniversity Idea Improvement
In my last post I mentioned that idea contest analytics can assist the spread of local university research being conducted in a country like China. Social network graphs that model idea submission...
View ArticleThe Future is Now: Data Protection Worthy of Your Data
Today marks an important day in the history of our division and for EMC as we announce new capabilities across major parts of our protection storage and software portfolio. While the launch headline...
View ArticleBackup To The Future?
In the beauty pageant of sexy IT topics, data protection doesn't usually fare well in garnering attention. Not many IT types get excited about providing good data protection, and all that it entails....
View ArticleLaunching “Next Generation Data Protection”– The Perfect Suite For Your Business
The next time you pass a furniture shop, have a look in the window. Do their collections of lounge furniture all consist of different types of chairs or does each chair in the suite complement each...
View ArticleTransforming Backup into a Business Accelerator
Stephen Manley, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division Backup has transformed from “low-value, high-cost insurance policy” to “business accelerator.” Unfortunately, most...
View ArticleReal Life Solutions for a Real World Architecture
The future of backup is now. Today, we announced new release of EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar, and EMC NetWorker. In doing so, we build out all layers of the Protection Storage Architecture: Protection...
View ArticleThe Future is Now: Data Protection Worthy of Your Data
Today marks an important day in the history of our division and for EMC as we announce new capabilities across major parts of our protection storage and software portfolio. While the launch headline...
View ArticleRecent Big Data Trends
Hey, I’m back. Sorry that I’ve not written in a while, but I have a good excuse. I’ve been working on my new book, “Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business”, and that’s been eating up...
View ArticleBackup to the Future: The future of data protection is NOW!
Let’s face it; data protection needs are growing so fast that most customers can’t keep up. That’s not surprising given that (as you heard if you attended GPS this year), between now and 2020, the...
View ArticleHappy Customer: City of Lenexa on EMC VNX (w/FAST) and VMware
In the video below, Justin Rairden talks about using FAST-enabled VNX storage for his VMware environment which hosts Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server. SUMMARY: they went from 14 SANs with nothing...
View ArticleThe Perfect Suite For Your Business
The next time you pass a furniture shop, have a look in the window. Do their collections of lounge furniture all consist of different types of chairs or does each chair in the suite complement each...
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