EMC is starting today a series of live demos of its products, which I believe is a first for the company. Actually I can’t think of other storage vendors putting on a similar line up of Webcasts.You can preview what’s already scheduled and eventually register here. Today’s event is about Flare 24, the software that controls EMC storage arrays.Are these Webcasts going to prove useful? I like the concept, actually I may have suggested to EMC and to other vendors to start similar product demos, but let me hold judgment at least until I see the first one. So far I have only registered for the Flare demo, but couldn’t help looking at what’s coming after this. Those upcoming topics sound interesting but I find annoying some of the blurbs used to describe them. For example, I am particularly turned off when I hear that something can make a complicated endeavor like recovering from a disaster “simple”.However, this is the unfortunate language that EMC used to present their Recovery Point demo, expected to go on at the end of the month.Disaster Recovery and Data Protection Made Simple with EMC RecoverPointAnybody who is or has been in the field knows that the major effort when preparing a DR strategy is to address the challenges created by human, environmental and logistics breakdowns that can happen when disasters strike. No piece of hardware or application can make those challenges “simple”. Ask the people in New Orleans if in doubt.Anyway, I’ll keep an open mind hoping that the marketing slant doesn’t extend to the content of those demos. Feel free to post on this blog your comments on this and future Webcasts. I’ll do the same.