While I was taking some time off last month, EMC announced NetWorker 8 – and one of the things that I caught up on was a neat video celebrating the legacy of NetWorker from 1988 through 2012.
Other than the fact that it highlights the evolution of NetWorker, including just about every feature that a backup solution ever thought of … and the camera work is cool … my favorite part is simply thinking through the evolutions and how much “backup” has changed. I started backing up servers in 1990; so in many ways, this video is my personal career’s evolution, as well.
I am just putting the wraps on the latest ESG report on “Data Protection Modernization”, including deep-dives on where folks are heading with snapshots, replication, deduplication, virtualization-protection, cloud/tape and trends in changing ones’ current solution(s). I imagine that twenty years from now, when someone is doing their ‘evolution video’ , all of those capabilities will be listed … just like all of the evolutions that NetWorker has matured through in its first 24 years. Heck, that future evolution video might end up being another EMC video too – so I hope that I am around to see it.
Thanks for reading, enjoy the video … and congrats to EMC on 22+ years of backing stuff up and its release of NetWorker 8.
Originally posted on my personal self-managed blog while at ESG (TechnicalOptimist.com), reposted on DPM for archival reference. Broken links are likely due to ESG content being dropped between its acquisition by TechTarget and their acquisition by Omdia.