The Wall Street Journal carries a summary of a pretty savvy marketing move by EMC. EMC, which is one of the biggest players in backup and data management, is celebrating their 30th anniversary by offering free data storage and backups to 300 top students from around the world. This is one of those brilliant marketing moves. If all goes well, those 300 students will be loyal customers for life. Gievn that they are top students, it stands to reason that they will be influential, decision-maker-types in their future jobs, and given their loyalty to EMC, may recommend EMS soultions in the future. Add to that lots of excitement at schools, with folks nominating their favorite picks or trying to win the prize, lots of free press and writeups of…hey, wait a minute…
Monthly Archives: August 2009
Three NAS Devices For Efficient Small-Office Backup
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Bill O’Brien, writing for PC World, has a pretty detailed review on 3 NAS (plus one DAS) device for SMB backups. NAS devices are network attached storage, basically a hard drive array with a tiny operating system and a network card. The draw is that they can be configured and then added to your network and used from anyplace that has network access. This makes them great for file storage and the first stage of backups. DAS is direct attached storage, basically a USB drive.
NAS and DAS make great places to save files or do your initial backup. I would be remiss if I did not further recommend actually backing up offsite. Theft, fire etc at your office would make your NAS kindof useless.
