Well, until now. This is an interesting story about archiving and how it could have, but didn't help a friend of mine.

Often, when speaking with customers, I talk to them about the 4 fundamental principals with regard to data protection:

The assessment phase is a multi-dimensional phase. It's about people, process and technology. Like with most things, the technology piece is the easy piece. EMC has tools that allow us to scan file… Read more »

Okay, so the dust it taking more time to settle on the whole EMC / DDUP / NTAP saga, so given this may go on for a while, let's try to shed some light on 'why' EMC would want this technology.

It's simple really, and it's analogues to the auto industry and hence the reference to the title of this piece. Rather than drone on about what 'Who killed the electric car?' I'll just tell… Read more »

EMC World kicked off this morning first with a presentation from yours truly on Data Deduplication 2.0 - Comprehensive Capacity Optimization. We discussed how data deduplication 1.0 is morphing into all areas of EMC's storage ecosystem in order to optimize capacity everywhere. I talked about data deduplication as well as single instancing and compression are technology components that will help EMC achieve this goal.

Next Joe Tucci spoke in his keynote about how data deduplication… Read more »