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I’ve been getting push back on the idea that cloud computing has challenges becoming reality.  A lot of people seem to think it’s already accomplished.  Private clouds, Amazon, Google, backup in the cloud, it’s all happening. A thing hit me the other day while I was talking with someone about why Google Apps isn’t a …

You want my data to go where?  How? I wrote last time about my concern with bandwidth costs as a barrier to adoption of this ‘cloud’ based computing concept so many vendors are pushing these days, where our data centers no longer have boundaries, and we can dynamically move workloads across the wire to data …

Companies and organizations are often faced with challenges regarding their backup windows, making them concerned about their overall reliability. EMC Avamar is a powerful backup and recovery system that can provide your organization with the reliability of daily full backups in a fraction of the time required by a traditional tape and disk based backup solution.

Is deduplication really all it’s cracked up to be? With everyone in the industry talking about deduplication, you can’t go 2 minutes without hearing how great it is and outlandish claims regarding deduplication rates. So the question is… is dedupe really all it’s cracked up to be? The answer isn’t really in the deduplication technology …