EMC World kicked off this morning first with a presentation from yours truly on Data Deduplication 2.0 - Comprehensive Capacity Optimization. We discussed how data deduplication 1.0 is morphing into all areas of EMC's storage ecosystem in order to optimize capacity everywhere. I talked about data deduplication as well as single instancing and compression are technology components that will help EMC achieve this goal.
Next Joe Tucci spoke in his keynote about how data deduplication as well as compression are key technologies for the data center of the future and how these technologies will aid in delivering a more efficient cloud computing strategy. Not only will these technologies help in building out a cloud infrastructure, they will also help to protect a cloud infrastructure (which is what we are all about here).
Finally, Paul Maritz gave his keynote on how the virtual infrastructure will help to fulfill the goals of a private cloud. He also discussed that it is time to invest in software and people and not hardware as VMware continues to drive value into their software to help make your data center, better, smarter, stronger and faster for less.
Each of these initiatives will have an impact on how data is stored and ultimately protected but new storage services will enable more efficient storage and protection across the virtual data center and the cloud and ultimately take backup beyond and put you on the road to recovery.
Stay tuned for more updates about the show.