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Friday Fun – For IT Admins who have got something better to do

Oh ye of little faith, why do you doubt us?

So VPLEX is two years old this EMC World and two years ago we announced to a fanfare how we had “conquered the challenges of distance”, could “move 1000s of VMs across 1000s of miles” and “access storage anywhere in...

RecoverPoint 3.5 and VPLEX 5.1 – The highlights.

So I have barely managed to contain my excitement over the past few months about the release of our latest versions of VPLEX and RecoverPoint, specifically VPLEX 5.1 and RecoverPoint 3.5.  These are important releases for a number of reasons,...

VPLEX Metro and Oracle RAC – it’s CERTIFIED!

VPLEX Metro for Oracle RAC is now officially Oracle Certified. The final set of accreditation tests has been completed and rubber stamped by Oracle. http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120517-04.htm This means that our customers can be confident that VPLEX Metro can provide an Oracle...

VPLEX – Operational vs. Business Benefits

Whilst it has been a busy few weeks from a work and travel perspective, with another busy week ahead (I am on a plane to Dubai as I write this), I am hugely encouraged by customer demand for the functionality...

Synchronous replication is dead, long live synchronous replication.

I had the pleasure of spending time at Cisco Live Europe (#CLEUR) this week talking about all things related to active/active and active/passive replication. We had a packed booth demonstrating and talking about how we could use, amongst other things,...

Mobility and Disaster Recovery Solution for Virtualized Tier-1 Enterprise Applications

As discussed earlier this month, there is a lot of focus on the distributed data center. Today Cisco released a comprehensive whitepaper on their website on the use of...

Active-Active (VPLEX) or Active-Passive (RecoverPoint)?

So I am responsible for, at least on face value, two competing products. If my own hype is to be believed the future is the active-active distributed data center; so where does that leave active-passive solutions like RecoverPoint? Well actually in...

VPLEX Whiteboard Video

Want to get an understanding in 10 mins of what makes VPLEX different? Then the following video might be helpful, let me know.

Storage and Datacenter Virtualization – Points to Consider

Introduction As part of an over all strategy to increase IT efficiency, organizations are demanding flexible, agile, fully utilized datacenter infrastructures. This drive for flexibility, agility and improved asset utilization is driving many customers to look at virtualization of the different...

The Distributed Data Center

One of the key focuses for 2012 will be the distributed data center. The key attributes of the distributed data center include:- ‘Building Blocks’ of resources Load Balancing across sites Federated data repository Continuous or High Availability of applications and data Optimal routing and response times Why...