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Store Everything Business Data Lake
Posted on October 12, 2014 by TheStorageChap in Big Data and Analytics, Data Lake1. Most organisations have Enterprise Data Warehouses built around a structured database platform where data is held in neat, tidy, tables and rows that are easily searchable. 2. Now the benefits of Big Data and Analytics are being realised by organisations large and small. 3. But the very nature and size of the unstructured data means that...
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Augmenting Backup and Recovery with RecoverPoint Local
Posted on June 20, 2014 by TheStorageChap in Data Protection, RecoverPointToday I want to talk about augmenting backup and recovery with RecoverPoint Local Continuous Data Protection. As a smart backup and/or storage administrator you have probably already implemented high performance, centralised backup and recovery software and integrated it with purpose built backup appliances that leverage data de-duplication to reduce the amount of disk capacity required to...
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How to Protect a Mission Critical Environment
Posted on January 28, 2014 by TheStorageChap in Application Availability, Automation, RecoverPoint, Video, VPLEXEMC has added a new video to it's Big Idea;Big Tech series with "How to Protect a Mission Critical Environment". This one offers a great overview of the reasons why businesses should be thinking about Data Protection and Availability and what types of Infrastructure they can deploy. No surprise that VPLEX and RecoverPoint are two...
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Data Protection and Availability Service Catalogue – New Year, New Division, New Value Proposition
Posted on January 20, 2014 by TheStorageChap in Application Availability, Data ProtectionSo a New Year and a new Division as VPLEX and RecoverPoint move out of what was the Enterprise Storage Division (now Enterprise & Mid-Tier Storage Division - EMSD) and into the Data Protection and Availability Division (DPAD), the new name for last years BRS Division. DPAD now has solutions for Archiving, Backup, Continuous Data...
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HP 3PAR Peer Persistence vs EMC VPLEX Metro
Posted on November 14, 2013 by TheStorageChap in VPLEXI cannot believe that I have not had a blog entry since June! Things have been a little crazy of late both at work and at home, but today I find myself with 15 minutes to spare and wanted to talk about HP 3PAR Peer Persistence vs EMC VPLEX Metro. Over the last 12 months the...
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Axxana – A Phoenix rising from the flames (literally)
Posted on June 12, 2013 by TheStorageChap in RecoverPoint, Replication, VPLEXOver a year ago I posted a blog entry (click here to open in a new window) on the solutions offered by Axxana in conjunction with RecoverPoint. EMC’s RecoverPoint sends data asynchronously to remote sites, while the Phoenix System® RP protects a synchronous copy of information...
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