Forgive me reader for I have sinned…..it has been many, many weeks since my last blog contribution.  Anyway, where was I at the end of 2011?……..ah yes, I was writing about EMC technologies that give you insight into what is in your environment.  I am now going to make you aware of EMC technologies that allow you to do something about all of that data.  Whether that data resides in mailboxes, PST files, file shares or Microsoft SharePoint, you have a fantastic EMC option that can move this data off of tier 1 storage into an archive that resides on tier 2, 3, or 4 storage.  

You might say, “I have an archive already, it is my tape library.”  (Imagine you are reading my lips).   Continue Reading

More and more content is moving onto the web.  Everyday millions of people put their trust in Facebook, Google and others to store treasured family memoires and photographs.  We know this trend is exploding exponentially.

But what about organizations?  Will engineering, pharmaceutical and financial services companies feel confident enough to put their trust in some centrally managed service?  Will they embrace OnDemand computing services to store and process business critical content and data?  This is now serious stuff, not holiday snaps.

The short answer is yes.  Many are already doing it.  Oil & Gas companies needing to share information on a new joint venture, and needing a place to collaborate with partners, suppliers and Governments, Continue Reading

In the physical world, we write a note to ourselves and eventually bin it. Back in the day, we created physical drafts of documents.  These drafts would eventually get binned as well.   If we stockpiled all the notes and drafts, we would run out of space to store them.  However, in the digital world, we inexorably keep everything—regardless of its significance or worth.  We have applications that can automatically retain every version of every document in its system.  And if we don’t have an application to do it for us, we have our own cunning and adroit ways of accomplishing such tasks: “budget_2012 – v1.xlsx”, “budget_2012 — (Michaels Version).xlsx”, “budget_2012 — finaldonoteverdelete.xlsx”, etc. etc.  In my previous posting, I gave an example of this with my “Birth of a Presentation.”  This practice or pension of keeping every scrap of electronic data along with man’s drive to invent new ways and places for us to create data is causing unprecedented explosion of data in our digital world.

Why have we become a society of digital pack-rats (hoarders?)  Do you realise that I still have my email box from the company I left in 2000?!   Earlier this year I was going through security at the Vienna airport and sent my backpack through the x-ray machine.  I got held up and asked to re-scan my backpack because I had “too much electronics” – I had over 2TB of storage in the form of various thumb drives and USB drives and it took me three trips Continue Reading