Ocarina's Carter George continued the conversation on backups, asking if the conventional backup paradigm was obsolete , and if file copies could serve the same purpose. As mentioned in our " What Is a Backup? " post, this is the same question posed by EMC's Scott Waterhouse recently...

The word "backup" gets thrown around so much that folks tuned in to the world of enterprise storage can start getting surly. One of the best ways to annoy a backup administrator is to start talking about how well the backup will facilitate disaster recovery, e-discovery, and compliance! So...

My kids learned it in school: Reduce, reuse, recycle. Folks focused on enterprise storage can take a lesson away as well: Do more with less , make do with what you have, and extract maximum value where possible But reuse has other meanings as well. Many organizations have vast pools of untouched data...