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 »

There has been a lot written about the airline industry and its ongoing challenges. Bankruptcies and mergers have been frequent topics on the business pages of the newspapers. Stranded passengers and jets sitting on runways for hours make are page news.

I travel a lot and have been doing so for 20 years. It's an interesting industry I have observed first hand, often times painfully. I would postulate, the air travel industry is one of… Read more »