Big Data, Big Backup, Big Problem?

We all know data volumes are not shrinking, quite the opposite data’s growing and more is expected from it. We are analysing it, replicating it, encrypting it, protecting it, storing it, and archiving it. In fact anything but deleting it. Continue Reading

Lady Backup is pleased to announce that EMC is the winner for the 2^nd year in the V3 Technology Awards.

While EMC was nominated in several categories, readers voted EMC best in “ disaster recovery and business continuity ” solutions.    Also of note is that VFCache was a finalist in the best product of the year.

Check out this video interview with Kelly Brown, filmed from the awards ceremony.   As a small side note, Ms. Brown at times Continue Reading

Like many many proud parents I am sure the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will treasure their first picture of their unborn baby. Medical images such as these are stored across the globe by hospitals as part of the ever growing patient record databases. You will regularly read blogs about the use of data deduplication to reduce the amount of data stored and transmitted, however patient records is one area where deduplication seldom helps. As an example and in no connection to the Duke and Duchess except by name, the Cambridge University Hospital in the UK has been using EMC Centera for a number of years to store such data.

Many hospitals now find that storing this data can be a major obstacle  while EMC Centera can store this data perfectly well, few hospitals have the data centre space to dedicate to such arrays. ESG research in 2011 indicated in North America that total storage Continue Reading

Paul Tempest-Mitchell, Sales Development Manager for UK&I on being at the EMC Forum in Dublin 2012.

I’ve just spent the last few days as the guest of the New Frontier Group as one of the keynote speakers at their CEO retreat in Austria. The theme of the event was “Shaping Future – Delivering Results”. The two day session was designed to stimulate the attendees thought processes in relation to business innovation.

New Frontier assembled one of the most impressive set of business thinkers I have seen in the last few years. Knell Nordstrom from Finland, the author of “Funky Business Continue Reading

Mark Galpin, Product Marketing Manager for EMC gives us a quick overview of some of the topics he will be covering at this years EMC Forum in London on September 11th, including: data growth, protecting your data, efficient backup and next generation backup solutions.

Register for EMC Forum

We caught Andrew Maclaren, head of Big Data for EMC EMEA in the corridor and asked him for a sneak peak of what he will be talking about during EMC FORUM in London on September the 11′th. Don’t miss out, register now!

This year, we’re bringing back EMC Forum to the UK and Ireland. This essential one-day event shows you how cloud and Big Data are transforming our industry — and how you can transform your business to stay competitive.

At EMC Forum you can learn, connect and network. You will hear local and international insights from high calibre keynote speakers and presenters, and case studies featuring the latest integrated solutions from EMC and our partners. A hand-picked selection of partners, such as Cisco, Computacenter and MTI, will be exhibiting their products, and our VLab will offer technical training from EMC engineers.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the latest solutions, products and services direct from EMC specialists and partners, network with the EMC Community and
discover our vision for the future. Continue Reading

Probably obvious I know but one of the most important aspects of the Olympics has been money. Or more specifically, the ability of consumers, retailers, banks, restaurants, hotels and transport companies to handle transactions without interruption.  Although there have been some signs that systems have been put under strain, key systems have proved to be robust.

London banks had already tested their systems against cyber attack towards the end of last year and the aim was to see how quickly the financial sector could restore services to ‘business as usual’ after major disruption.

The ‘proof of the pudding’ as they say, will be in the delivery of a successful ‘economic games’ and we will be able to claim that all the planning and investment Continue Reading

There is  a lot of truth in the adage of what I was taught in the RAF and what has stayed with me in the form of the ‘5 Ps’ – previous planning prevents poor performance, and the work over the past 7 years that has gone into delivering and securing the Digital Olympics is a great example.

The core digital infrastructure, much of which was locked down months ago, has been relentlessly tested to ensure it can cope with the huge demand placed on it during the 17 days of the Summer Olympics and 12 days of the Paralympics.  Organisers of the London 2012 games are confident that the investment in testing the vast array of IT infrastructure and equipment deployed across London and the Olympic venues, and recovery processes in the case of a major cyber attack, will pay dividends.

With all this data flashing around the networks it is hard to visualise Continue Reading