This blog will have multiple parts. I will introduce my view of a data protection reference architecture and the next few blog posts will talk to components of that architecture.

The other day I had a very interesting conversation with a colleague of mine in Australia. He was looking for a data protection reference architecture that he could use to speak to his customer. As you can imagine having this conversation over the phone could… 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 »

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 »