The Future of Backup Is Now
Our esteemed CTO, Stephen Manley, has been talking a lot about the importance of having the right architecture (Part I, II, III, IV, and V). The question is – what are we doing to help you get there?...
View ArticleConsidering an Email Archive Change?
Is your current solution one the Hewlett-Packard Autonomy archiving solutions acquired through acquisition (e.g. CA Ilumin, Zantaz EAS, Mimosa NearPoint, HP IAP)? Is your current solution Symantec...
View ArticleScaleIOthe inside scoop
Today – EMC acquired a small startup called ScaleIO that joins our Flash business unit – welcome to the folks there! You can read about that here:...
View ArticleTransformation Will Happen… With or Without You
“We are no longer in a period of rapid change! We have now entered a unique period of time, unlike anything any of us have ever seen, that can best be described as transformation.” Powerful words from...
View ArticleNSA Outrage. Are We Really That Unaware?
The minute we happily turn on our electronic devices, we voluntarily expose ourselves. Sure, we think our emails and transactions are encrypted and unreadable, our location services are turned off,...
View ArticleUsing vSphere Data Protection?
I’m curious for feedback from folks using VMware Data Protection (VDP) – whether it’s VDP, or VDP Advanced. Please give you feedback – comment freely! In the recent Avamar 7 release, It’s great to see...
View ArticleThey’re all gonna talk about you!
At least they’re not laughing at us! If you missed it, EMC made a huge announcement on July 10th regarding the newest updates to the data protection portfolio. I will cover the specifics in greater...
View ArticleVirtual Document Publishing with Documentum D2
Virtual documents is one of the most powerful and unique features of the Documentum platform. I've often been told by customers that no other ECM platform offers anything close for managing compound...
View ArticleEMC Data Protection Suite: What’s New In EMC Avamar 7
So many new features … so little room on this BLOG space. Instead of posting a one-hundred-page What’s New BLOG, I thought I provide a few highlights along with a number of links to various...
View ArticleWant to run IT like a Business? Focus on your Customer!
Recently, EMC and VMware have commissioned IDG to conduct a survey on ITaaS in order to understand IT and the business perception on ITaaS and how it has helped meet their organizational objectives....
View ArticleRussell Poole analyses EMC’s impact on the Public Sector Spending of 2013
Russell Poole, director of public sector at EMC UK&I, analyses the Public Sector Spending Review 2013 to unveil what this really means for the public sector: First, a commitment to drive out waste...
View ArticleInstalling Rasplex on a Raspberry Pi – SCART and HDMI
This is something quite different from the normal content here at pureVirtual, but I thought I’d share my success story on how to get Rasplex on a Raspberry Pi to work over both SCART and HDMI. From...
View ArticleApplication Workload Evolution
A good way to frame any innovation discussion in high-tech is in the context of application workloads. The slide below has become very common both inside and outside of EMC. It attempts to categorize...
View ArticleBig Data Storage Guide for Dummies–Free Download
Want to find out more about what the various aspects of Big Data Storage? If so then check out this free Big Data Storage for Dummies Guide which has been sponsored by EMC. I’ve had a read through...
View ArticleDon’t Go the Distance: Keep Your Data Close to Home
For years, business continuity solution experts have been telling you that the best way to meet all of your disaster recovery needs is to have two data centers: one close to your company headquarters,...
View ArticleCloud Goes Mainstream in Brazil Financial Market
Rodrigo Gazzaneo, Specialists PreSales Manager, Latin America Brazil, the B in BRIC, is regularly in the media. An emerging economy going through deep social transformations, Brazil is facing serious...
View ArticleAccessing ePaaS With A Few Clicks: EMC Pioneers Automated Services
By Norm Simmonds – Consulting System Administrator, EMC IT and James Nuzzo – Senior IT Applications Development Manager Allowing business users to create their own application landscapes with a few...
View ArticleSpeculation on ScaleIO
Last Thursday, EMC announced the acquisition of ScaleIO, a small Israeli storage startup. While many news sources reported the facts of the transaction, painfully few went deeper to try and explore...
View ArticleOn Selecting Workloads for Catalog, Cloud and Architecture Requirements
Maximizing the output of your limited time and resources for a workload analysis. We do a lot of work building service catalogs, looking for infrastructure cost optimization opportunities and...
View ArticleProduct Rebranding: Iomega – Now Lenovo EMC
The joint venture between EMC and Lenovo, which saw the Iomega range of products fall under the new LenovoEMC company, have announced a rebranding of the Iomega portfolio of products including the...
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