Backup Transformation – Who Can You Trust?
Lady Backup is a contingency planner. Truth be told, I have a bit of an obsession with “what if” scenarios. I keep backups of my data – and then backups of the backups stored on different devices. I...
View ArticleBackup Transformation: Let’s Get Serious Here (Part 2)
Lady Backup started this series by highlighting a Webcast that provided 3 steps to backup transformation. If you missed it, you can watch it on demand here. But I think that still might not be enough...
View ArticleJust how quick do you want to get your backup data off site?
Replication has become key to most data protection strategies. We see most organisations in the Open System space using replication and deduplication to get data off site. This gives these companies an...
View ArticleEMC Forum 2012: Transform: IT+Business+Yourself
This year, we’re bringing back EMC Forum to the UK and Ireland. This essential one-day event shows you how cloud and Big Data are transforming our industry -- and how you can transform your business to...
View ArticleShortening the Journey to Backup
It seems whatever industry you are in nowadays we are obliged to shorten or abbreviate our words. Having just spent a few days discussing product roadmaps with our Champion Backup Partners, it seemed...
View ArticleWhy do we use appliances?
Washing clothes is one of those tasks made a lot easier by the use of a washing machine. A piece of equipment that has been purposely designed to the task in hand, in other words an appliance. Now I am...
View ArticleMore People Choose EMC Backup – But Why?
Lady Backup is competitive. I can’t help it. Regardless of the situation, I want to be the best. So there is no doubt why I want to work for a winning team like EMC. But being part of a winning team...
View ArticleIT Transformation – What We’ve Missed (Part 1)
Welcome 2013! Lady Backup is not one for predictions or resolutions, so don’t worry I’m not looking into my crystal ball. Rather, I thought we would start the year by looking at an element of IT...
View ArticleIT Transformation – What We’ve Missed (Part 2)
Picking up from last week, Lady Backup asserts that there is a key enabler in IT transformation that we haven’t paid enough attention to: archiving. Archiving has a key value to play in lower your IT...
View ArticleIT Transformation – What We’ve Missed (Part 3)
In the 3rd party of this series, it should be understood that Lady Backup does not consider a backup an archive. As my colleagues know, I will strongly argue with anyone who considers backup tapes to...
View ArticleBig Data, Big Backup, Big Problem?
Big Data, Big Backup, Big Problem? We all know data volumes are not shrinking, quite the opposite data’s growing and more is expected from it. We are analysing it, replicating it, encrypting it,...
View ArticleHSM or Archiving? From the Backup Guy
HSM or Archiving? From the Backup Guy Looking back in my working life I have spent well over 20 years in the backup arena. From installing, upgrading, monitoring, and finally selling and marketing all...
View ArticleData Domain: A Decade of Keeping Businesses Running
Lady Backup generally doesn’t shamelessly promote EMC products. But there are always exceptions. And this is one of them as we recognize the 10th anniversary of EMC Data Domain. Thinking back to...
View ArticleEMC Backup and Archive – User Groups
What better way to hear what our partners and customers have to say about our “Data Protection” products than to get out onto the streets and visit over 25 cities in EMEA. That’s the task for us over...
View ArticleEMC Backup and Archive – User Groups
What better way to hear what our partners and customers have to say about our “Data Protection” products than to get out onto the streets and visit over 25 cities in EMEA. That’s the task for us over...
View ArticleProtection Storage Architecture Is Priceless, Part III
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness,” Frank Gehry. During the EMC Backup Recovery Systems’ keynote at EMC World, Guy “Haybale” Churchward shared his...
View ArticleProtection Storage Architecture Is Priceless, Part IV
Architecture is priceless, and history wants to make architects pay dearly. According to legend, after the completion of St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow, Tsar Ivan the Terrible gouged out the...
View ArticleThe Payback from Backup Transformation – Part 2
Lady Backup continues with Part 2 in looking at a recent IDC analysis that shows the business benefits from backup transformation with EMC. As we reviewed in Part 1, there is a clear financial benefit...
View ArticleThe Payback from Backup Transformation – Part 3
Lady Backup will conclude this series looking at a recent IDC analysis that quantifies the business benefits from backup transformation. In Part 2, we looked at the categories of savings from...
View ArticleIT Transformation – What We’ve Missed (Part 1)
Welcome 2013! Lady Backup is not one for predictions or resolutions, so don’t worry I’m not looking into my crystal ball. Rather, I thought we would start the year by looking at an element of IT...
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