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Takeaways from EMC Inform ’07

Today I want to tell you about the EMC Avamar data backup and de-duplication software and Nortel OM5130 SAN extension unit.

A few weeks back I visited EMC Inform ’07 one day conference in Melbourne. Main aim of my visit was to get a feel for what Enterprise (and storage) world is concerned with nowadays, and maybe to pick up an idea or two.

The presentations I went to gave me an impression that the hottest topics today seem to be server and storage virtualization, data storage and backup optimization, and an increasing urge to make sense of the avalanche of information.

This is all good, but what can a Telco get out of all this? I saw a couple of things.

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