Technology is great isn't it? When someone thinks they have a new idea on the same old technology foundation they call it "X 2.0". I have been watching the banter between analysts and vendors (specifically NTAP’s Dr. Dedupe and Permabit’s CEO Tom Cook) on the topic of Deduplication 2.0 and it is my belief that the proverbial boat is being missed (since we are using water analogies). I have been watching these guys hash it… Read more »

The hardest thing to change inside IT is not technology, it is process! I say this because all too often there are technologies available that provide a far superior solution to a complex IT problem, however, this new technology may not fit into your existing business process. Need proof? Let's take data protection as an example. Did you know that VTLs (virtual tape libraries) and data deduplication technologies came out at the exact same point… 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 »