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VPLEX or ViPR
Posted on May 10, 2013 by TheStorageChap in Automation, ViPR, VPLEXAt EMC World this week we announced ViPR and the question that I have not stopped being asked since is, "VPLEX or ViPR?". The reason is due simply to the way we have messaged ViPR. Several of the ViPR Press Releases and Blogs have referred to 'virtual storage' and 'pools of storage' a concept...
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Business Impact of RecoverPoint 4.0
Posted on May 1, 2013 by TheStorageChap in RecoverPointRecoverPoint continues to gather momentum within EMC with new points of integration appearing almost daily. Today I want to take a look at the business impact of RecoverPoint 4.0, which was officially announced yesterday. RecoverPoint 4.0 provides a solution to two of the four tenets of...
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The Four Tenets of Application Availability
Posted on April 29, 2013 by TheStorageChap in Application Availability, Continuous Operations, RecoverPoint, Video, VPLEXToday I want to briefly describe what I am seeing as the four tenets of application availability. The growing reliance on information, information derived from data and applications, is causing organisations to rethink their strategies for storage, application and data centre availability. The traditional norm of Primary and DR data centre design is no longer meeting the...
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VPLEX Use Cases – Animated Descriptions
Posted on April 9, 2013 by TheStorageChap in Use Case, Video, VPLEXWe have been increasing the number of animated VPLEX Use Cases, which now include:- VPLEX for VMware http://youtu.be/zz36rEiQBr4 VPLEX for Oracle http://youtu.be/DRtl6dU2P_E VPLEX for Continuous Data Availability http://youtu.be/NVHGxLYasAo VPLEX for Migrations http://youtu.be/B5ZQndrRJU0 You can find more information on VPLEX Use Cases at http://www.emc.com/VPLEX
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EMC VMAX Cloud Edition
Posted on February 26, 2013 by TheStorageChap in Automation, Cloud, VMAX Cloud EditionToday EMC publicly announces VMAX Cloud Edition. Those of you familiar with VMAX SP (Service Provider) will be aware of some similarities. VMAX SP has been rebranded VMAX Cloud Edition. Why? Simply because the proposition of VMAX Cloud Edition is equally applicable to enterprise and mid-market customers as it is to Service Providers. Alongside, modernising...
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Embedding Vine Video in WordPress
Posted on February 13, 2013 by TheStorageChap in SocialI've started to look at Vine and how we can use it in a work context, but obviously this necessitated me seeing what could be done and how you can embed Vine Video in Wordpress etc. So as part of my research here is my first 6 second Vine video that I put together with...
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