In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was at SNW and vendor friend of mine asked if I knew anyone [...]

Quantum announced today that they are OEMing esXpress software (from PHD Virtual) to better support VMware VM backups (see press release) . This software schedules VMware snapshots of VMs and can then transfer the VM snapshot (backup) data directly to a Quantum DXI storage device. One free “Professional” esXpress license will ship with each DXI [...]

It’s unclear to me what EMC would want with Data Domain (DD) other than to lockup deduplication technology across the enterprise. EMC has Avamar for Source dedupe, has DL for target dedupe, has Celerra Dedupe and the only one’s missing are V-Max, Symm & Clariion dedupe. My guess is that EMC sees Data Domain’s market [...]