Not only is EMC a great place to work, offers great products to solve IT challenges, but they are also a great place to invest. See the full press release below. --- EMC Reports 23% Increase in First-Quarter Profit; Achieves 11% Growth in Quarterly Revenue EMC Delivers 9th Consecutive Quarter of Year-Over-Year Double-Digit Revenue, Profit … Continue reading EMC Reports 23% Increase in First-Quarter Profit →

EMC's dedication to addressing big data and driving customer adoption of the cloud has contributed to the CNN Money/Fortune's recent article listing them among the 9 most admired tech companies. Read more at http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2012/fortune/1202/gallery.most-admired-technology-companies.fortune/5.html

If you are a healthcare facility that suffers a data breach, then you will be added to this list. (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachnotificationrule/breachtool.html). I think this highlights an often overlooked issue with offsite tape archiving. Humans. If you put a human being into a workflow, you are also introducing the capability for human error. These errors can be … Continue reading What would happen if YOUR tapes were lost or stolen →

I was reading an article today (http://www.integrateddatastorage.com/blog/2012/01/10/snapshot-or-not-to-snapshot-that-is-the-question-when-leveraging-vnx-unified-file-systems/) on the IDS blog, asking whether to snapshot a filesystem stored on a VNX array. The quick answer is depends. Yes, create snapshots and use that as one of the many tools you have at your disposal for recovering a users data back to a point in time. Yes, … Continue reading Can a snapshot replace a backup? No! →

Everyone sure wants to get into the deduplication game! Dell recently entered the market with the DR4000 which uses the Ocarina deduplication technology they purchased. Reading over the specs, this device looks like it is intended for small to medium business with a limited ability to scale out. They are touting OST integration (likely since … Continue reading Another day, another backup appliance – Dell →

Chuck Hollis raised an interesting question last year, asking when is a backup really a backup. His argument is that a copy of data stored local to the production copy, isn't really a backup. This means taking a snapshot of a document or repository, isn't really a backup. You must move a copy of your … Continue reading When is a backup really a backup? →

The class schedules for BRS training in Texas have been updated through March of 2012. We offer both classroom, and virtual instructor lead offerings for most of the following classes. We have another unique offerings that can help you achieve your certification and education goals. A subscription (CE-LGSUBCUS01) of $11K per person provides you access … Continue reading Upcoming customer education offerings in Texas →

Any day that I get to spend time with my peers is a good day. This is because as a team, we are some of the most brilliant, motivated, dedicated, and thoughtful people I have ever had the pleasure of working with. We lift each other up by constantly raising the bar. We drive success … Continue reading EMC Technical Consultant Standouts →

As EMC enters into the fourth quarter of 2011, we have launched our latest customer relationship survey. If you are contacted by EMC (email will come from mailto:emccustomerloyalty@allegiancetech.com) to participate, please take a few minutes to complete the survey. Topics will include Overall relationship, Product evaluation, Sales Services and Support functions. This survey is a … Continue reading EMC Customer Relationship Survey →