Making Data Protection Work for the Smaller Enterprise

Data protection vendors love to tout their large enterprise customers. And, why not? If you can support a massive organization it speaks to the robustness of your solution. But what’s often left unsaid...
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EMC’s Future Vision Brought to you Today by NetApp and Syncsort

It’s that time of year when folks roll out their predictions for the future of IT.  EMC brought together a bunch of different executives to make predictions this year.  I’m not going to comment on...
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Heading Into the Frankenstorm?

As I write, a potentially devastating storm may be heading towards the Northeast coast of the United States.  While it has the rather friendly sounding name of “Sandy,” it is also being dubbed “The...
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VMworld 2012: An Update from the Show Floor

Another August, another VMworld! As always, it’s a hectic, crazy time of non-stop activity and the San Francisco weather could not be more spectacular. Once again this year, Syncsort is running the Race...
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Disaster Recovery is Top of Mind

Disaster Recovery has been on many people’s minds of late, and the trade press is full of stories. American Express OpenForum has a piece rating the most dangerous cities in America in which to start...
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Snapshots as Disruptive Technology

We continue our celebration of Backup Awareness Month with the third of our new video blogs. In the previous two, we covered the backup side of things with “Enabling Faster Backups” and  “Backup...
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Edgar Allan Poe Visits the Data Center

A few months back, you may recall, we were privileged to have Ernest Hemingway drop in with a blog post.  Since June is Backup Awareness Month, we thought it might be nice to have another great American...
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NSB as Disruptive Technology

Innovation and what succeeds in the market is an endlessly interesting idea. I was reminded of this recently when I read a New Yorker magazine profile of Clayton Christensen, the business guru most famous...
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The Voice of the Customer Speaks Loudest

When it comes to evaluating technology, nothing speaks louder than the voice of the customer. Vendors can say what they want about a product, but what matters is how it works in the day-to-day world of...
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Making “Barry the Unruly Developer” Happy

ESG’s Steve Duplessie has a great new blog post this week titled IT Chasms, Gaps and A New World Order.  Featuring Steve’s classic, straight shooting style, it is well worth your while to give it...
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