I often joke w/ customers that when my friends were growing up they would dream of being a professional baseball player or a rock star and I used to dream of becoming a data protection technologist. Recently I read something very profound in Chuck Hollis’s internal EMC blog. Chuck said, "Decide what you're passionate about ...and write about it... it is hard to write about stuff you don't care about." I am passionate about data… Read more »

Hi, my name is Steve and I have a recovery problem. Well, a data recovery problem that is. So, I think it is about time that I apply the '12 steps' to help me with my data recovery problem.

Step 1 - It is time that I admit that I am powerless over my backup environment and my data protection world is unmanageable.

Step 2 - I have come to believe that there is a… Read more »

Last week I took a course offered by EMC entitled ‘Lean Six Sigma' - Yellow Belt. This is a training course that is used to help ‘solve problems' in a given process, typically work related. When I think about where the biggest problem is in IT its in the Backup arena so I thought, what a better place to test it.

There are two components to Lean Six Sigma. Lean or Leaning a process is… Read more »

Our domain, Backup & Beyond was the tagline for Avamar Technologies, a company EMC acquired in November of 2006. This tagline was very fitting from a data protection standpoint because Avamar utilized a traditional client / server architecture to protect data but with a twist. Avamar utilizes a more intelligent client side agent that provides source based, variable block deduplication to enable the most efficient backups available in the market for more than 80% of… Read more »