Today, EMC announced updates across their entire BRS (Backup and Recovery Solutions) line of products, adding new data protection features. Due to size, I’ve split my analysis of this announcement into two parts, as follows:

• Part One: What Was Announced
• Part Two: What It Means (this post)

Part Two:  What It Means

[DISCLAIMER: My breakdown of the EMC announcement in Part One is based upon information from EMC, given to me under embargo until today. You can consider it information directly from EMC, seen from my point of view, and, as such, can count on high accuracy. Everything in Part Two, however, is all me. What follows here is pure speculation and thought exercises of my own. To judge the accuracy of Part Two, revisit it a year or two from now…]

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Today, EMC announced updates across their entire BRS (Backup and Recovery Solutions) line of products, adding new data protection features. Due to size, I’ve split my analysis of this announcement into two parts, as follows:

• Part One: What Was Announced (this post)
• Part Two: What It Means

Part One: What Was Announced

EMC announced the following:

• New mid-range Data Domain models to replace the current DD640, DD670, DD860, and DD890 models
• Avamar version 7
• NetWorker 8.1
• Enhanced Mozy capabilities

I’ll go into more detail here:

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