Server virtualization has changed the IT landscape dramatically. It has become a magic potion curing a number of ills in the physical server world such as low individual CPU utilization and excess use of space, power and cooling in the data center. However, like all potions that cure what ails you, there can be side effects. You need to be careful of what the Witch Doctor orders.
When I speak with customers who have aggressively… Read more »
The Architecture
This ‘architecture’ diagram, as you can see, is not a typical architecture diagram, but hopefully it can be used to align your business and business objectives with the technologies that are available and can best be applied to solve your issues helping to balance, cost, complexity and compliance.
This diagram can also be used to do a couple of other things. It can help you begin to classify your data and align your… Read more »
One of the more thoughtful analysts in the industry, in my opinion is George Crump from Storage Switzerland. (I like the name and George is as independent as you can get in
this business.) Yesterday I had the pleasure of briefing George on EMC's Data Protection Vision. I like talking with George for a couple of reasons. First, he gets it. What does that mean. Read his material. He is genuinely trying to educate IT… Read more »
I was walking through the data center the other day when I heard one of my colleagues, MJ “Scream”, “I wish I had some ‘Morphine’”. Well, I have to say I was “Speechless”. I walked over to where MJ was standing, near the tape library, and when I asked him what was wrong, he replied “there was another backup tape ’Jam‘.” MJ told me he had been “Working Day and Night” on a major backup… Read more »
EMC's announcement on accelerating your backup efficiency hits some very important concepts to help users make significant progress in solving some key backup challenges.
color: black; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">A lot has been said over the last 18 months regarding an inflection point, where the growth of data is out pacing the capabilities of traditional backup technologies. This has driven the 'one size does not fit all' belief when it comes to backup technology for… Read more »