Event: Big Data Roadshow

The Big Data Roadshow is coming to Texas. See below for more information and signup today. See you there! Austin 2/27/2013: https://emcinformation.com/122102/MTP/.ashx?reg_src=SA Dallas 3/12/2013: https://emcinformation.com/126709/MTP/.ashx?reg_src=SA Please join us for this EMC Event: Face-to-Face with Big Data Transforms lives, transforms business Big Data is transforming the world – but how can organizations harness the power of … Continue reading Event: Big Data Roadshow →

Legislative Visit Day a HIT

Today, the Texas chapter of HIMSS met at the state capital to call upon the legislature and solicit their support with key health initiatives in Texas. These include driving additional adoption of EMR software in Texas and understanding the incentives currently available, solidify and promote the HIE initiative in Texas and, bring attention to the … Continue reading Legislative Visit Day a HIT →

Don't Converge without a Backup Plan

Today's cloud focused software defined data center is being powered by the latest converged infrastructure like VCE's vBlock. As we converge our hardware stack in the data center into a cohesive scalable stack, it's important that backup continue to be a part of they plan. EMC Avamar empowers IT with a powerful backup environment that … Continue reading Don't Converge without a Backup Plan →

Among the Greats

The Gotdedupe? blog was given the great honor of being included on the EMC Social home page in January. You can see the rest of the EMC promoted bloggers at http://www.emc.com/social-emc/index.htm#bloggers. I encourage you to take a few minutes to add these blogs to whatever aggregator you use to monitor and stay up to date with … Continue reading Among the Greats →

EMC Support Site: Additional Functionality Enabled

The EMC online support experience has undergone a number of significant changes over the last year. This has allowed less reliance on Powerlink for end user self support. These changes have made the new support.emc.com website simpler to use, which means getting access to valuable content easier. Recently, additional functionality was added making it even … Continue reading EMC Support Site: Additional Functionality Enabled →

15 Minutes to Smarter (and better) Backups

Got fifteen minutes? You could save 15% on your car insurance, or you can become smarter about your backups. This quick read will give you some advice on how to deal with the major challenges all IT shops are facing. First is the explosive growth of data. While data is growing, IT budgets are shrinking. … Continue reading 15 Minutes to Smarter (and better) Backups →

Brand New Atmos Hardware and New Software Versions Available

EMC Atmos is a cloud storage platform that enables enterprises and service providers to store, manage, and protect globally distributed, unstructured content at scale. A key differentiator of Atmos is its management of data in a policy-driven, object-based way. Key to this functionality is the flexible user metadata. Coupling objects with metadata tags allows objects … Continue reading Brand New Atmos Hardware and New Software Versions Available →

F1 and the Formula – How EMC is like an F1 Team

I had the great thrill of attending the inaugural Formula One race at the new Circuit of the America's track in Austin a few weekends ago and it was amazing. The first thing that struck me was the sheer power of the cars on the track. As they came speeding by turn 9 and made … Continue reading F1 and the Formula – How EMC is like an F1 Team →

Avamar…Fun Facts

Avamar is an awesome product that combines the power of disk based deduplication and backup software in a single package. See the following fun facts about Avamar that you may not have known. The first to integrate to VMware’s vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP) and to vCenter in 2009. The first to leverage VMware’s … Continue reading Avamar…Fun Facts →

Why Data Domain and Avamar are not like Rock Band

I was walking through my house in the dark the other night and tripped over the Rock Band drum set and Guitars that I had stashed in the corner. After getting yelled at for still having that stuff in the house I exclaimed "Let's just sell them!" This garnered the standard, "I don't know...what if … Continue reading Why Data Domain and Avamar are not like Rock Band →