In this week’s episode of Engineers Unplugged, NetApp’s Nick Howell (@that1guynick) walks through the basics of data protection with Cisco’s Marcus Phipps (@mmphipps). More than ones and zeroes, it’s applications. Follow along here:

Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple:

1. Episodes will publish weekly (or as close to it as we can manage)
2. Subscribe to the podcast here: engineersunplugged.com
3. Follow the #engineersunplugged conversation on Twitter
4. Submit ideas for episodes or volunteer to appear by Tweeting to @CommsNinja
5. Practice drawing unicorns

A data protected unicorn is a happy unicorn.

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Tags: application backup, data protection, engineers unplugged, netapp, VMware, vmworld