W. Curtis Preston Interviews Alberto Farronato, Group Marketing for Storage & Mobility for VMWare, at VMWorld 2012 in San Francisco. They discuss the changes with VDP (VMWare Data Protection), which is the newly released update to VDR (VMWare Data Recovery). Alberto mentions improvements to the backup engine and additions of features requested by customers. Still targeting same group as VDR, those with up to 2 TB of data. Curtis asks if they replaced the guts with Avamar and if they are trying to supplant their partners.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• VMWare
• Alberto Farronato
• VMWorld 2012