New role

I’m pleased to say that on Monday I’ll be starting a new role. While I’ve worked closely with EMC for…

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EMC Elect, 2014

I’m rather pleased to say I’ve been included for the second year running in the EMC Elect programme. Last year…

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Happy anniversary, EMC and Legato

In July 2003, 10 years ago, EMC announced they were buying Legato for around $1.3 billion dollars (US). The acquisition…

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iTWire – Aussie storage growth above average: Gartner

There’s a report over at iTWire that has two highly pertinent details. (iTWire – Aussie storage growth above average: Gartner.)…

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Holiday Wrap-Up

The holiday season is upon many of us – whether you celebrate xmas or christmas, or just the new year…

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A tale of 4 vendors

This is my blog entry about the SNIA blogfest on 4 November that I attended, but it’s not what I…

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EMC, Sun and Oracle

There’s been much speculation as to whether Sun under Oracle would retain the EMC NetWorker OEM arrangement. Finally there’s some…

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Adding vs Refining vs Removing vs Fixing Features

Over at a website called ignore the code, there’s a fascinating and insightful piece at the moment about removing features.…

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EMC, Data Domain, VTLs and Disk Backup

With their recent acquisition of Data Domain, some people at EMC have become table thumping experts overnight on why you…

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When is a cumulative patch cluster not a cumulative patch cluster?

In the past EMC have not so much “issued” cumulative patch clusters, but let them trickle out on an as-needs…

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