Posts Tagged backup

Time to Re-think Disk-based Backup

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on October 7, 2009


Time to Re-think Backup?

Time to Re-think Backup?

Last week I wrote “From a backup perspective, the world is at an inflection point. Today’s requirements for growth, rapid data access and speedy recovery are outstripping the industry’s ability to solve backup challenges.”  I’d like to explore this a bit further.

The basic premise of this post is that while storing data on disk in de-duplicated format is more cost effective than storing non-de-duplicated data, there is very little other advantage, in the backup process to just changing the target where data is stored. IT practitioners, especially those aggressively pursuing virtualization strategies, have an opportunity to re-architect backup processes and dramatically reduce I/O bottlenecks associated with backup.

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EMC + Data Domain = Now What?

Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on August 23, 2009


Anyone that knows me or follows this blog understands I was never thrilled about EMC shelling out $2.4B for Data Domain. I didn’t like the deal at $1.8B. But what’s done is done. EMC kept the asset out of NetApp’s hands and it acquired a nice piece of property in Data Domain.

So what’s in store for EMC and its customers as a result of this acquisition? I want to cover three things here in this post:

  1. EMC’s data protection vision and what’s changed.
  2. What this deal means in the near term for EMC as a company.
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