Coopetition and No Need to Bash Your Partner!
A Positive Approach to Competing

Coopetition and No Need to Bash Your Partner!
It's time to start storing and managing your data in a way that helps to transform your business and make you more competitive.
A few weeks ago I attended a presentation on data protection. The presentation talked about “5 things to think about when building out your data protection solution”. The presentation talked about the typical things:
Classify your dataRPORTOand then they talked about two other things I had not heard of:
VRO (version recovery objective)GRO (geographic recovery objective)My first reaction was, okay, here is another vendor trying to pain a picture of something only their… Read more »
Today I listened to the podcast by one of my absolute favorite industry influencers Mark Twomey (@storagezilla). The title of the podcast was The Copy Data Cortex. It featured another industry insider with a great deal of knowledge Stephen Manley, CTO of Core Technologies at EMC, and they were talking about “Copy Data”, and as Mark put it “…it isn’t the wave of the future, it is a present thing…”.
… Read more »Two weeks ago at EMCWorld, Josh Goldstein, Marketing and VP of Product Management for Extreme IO was on the Wikibon/SiliconAngle #theCube talking about the value of Copy Data Management for all flash systems. Listen to what Josh had to say here (this video has been cut down to the important copy data management segments):
Data deduplication is about how many bits per square inch can be stored to represent as much data as possible… Read more »