The Storage Chap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog Opinionated views of the storage virtualisation and replication industry Fri, 10 May 2013 03:23:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 VPLEX or ViPR http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/05/10/vplex-or-vipr/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/05/10/vplex-or-vipr/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 03:23:25 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=913 At 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 that ...

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/05/10/vplex-or-vipr/feed/ 0 Business Impact of RecoverPoint 4.0 http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/05/01/business-impact-of-recoverpoint-4-0/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/05/01/business-impact-of-recoverpoint-4-0/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 09:40:40 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=862 RecoverPoint 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 application availability that I talked about a couple of ...

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/05/01/business-impact-of-recoverpoint-4-0/feed/ 0 The Four Tenets of Application Availability http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/04/29/the-four-tenets-of-application-availability/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/04/29/the-four-tenets-of-application-availability/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:39:25 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=807 Today 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 ...

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/04/29/the-four-tenets-of-application-availability/feed/ 0 VPLEX Use Cases – Animated Descriptions http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/04/09/vplex-use-cases-animated/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/04/09/vplex-use-cases-animated/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:28:30 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=789 We have been increasing the number of animated VPLEX Use Cases, which now include:- VPLEX for VMware VPLEX for Oracle VPLEX for Continuous Data Availability VPLEX for Migrations You can find more information on VPLEX Use Cases at http://www.emc.com/VPLEX

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/04/09/vplex-use-cases-animated/feed/ 0 EMC VMAX Cloud Edition http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/02/26/emc-vmax-cloud-edition/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/02/26/emc-vmax-cloud-edition/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:10:33 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=774 Today 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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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/02/26/emc-vmax-cloud-edition/feed/ 0 Embedding Vine Video in WordPress http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/02/13/embedding-vine-video-in-wordpress/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/02/13/embedding-vine-video-in-wordpress/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:58:10 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=737 I’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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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2013/02/13/embedding-vine-video-in-wordpress/feed/ 2 Merry Christmas and Goodwill to the Competition http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/24/christmas-message-2012/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/24/christmas-message-2012/#comments Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:34:49 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=665 The world of IT is a world of innovation and one-up-man-ship where the mearest technical or functional differention can mean the difference between a customer choosing your solution or choosing another. That very environment breeds passionate people committed to championing their chosen cause and technologies; a passion that could sometimes be misconstrued as arrogance. So ...

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/24/christmas-message-2012/feed/ 0 Oracle RAC and EMC VPLEX for Continuous Operations – Animation http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/21/oracle-rac-and-emc-vplex-continuous/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/21/oracle-rac-and-emc-vplex-continuous/#comments Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:05:21 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=647 Great new animation showing how Oracle RAC and EMC VPLEX can be deployed together to enable Continuous Operation of the Oracle environment. http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/continuous-operations-oracle-rac-emc-vplex.htm Further information on VPLEX with Oracle RAC can be found here 

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/21/oracle-rac-and-emc-vplex-continuous/feed/ 1 HDS HAM vs VPLEX Metro http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/04/hds-ham-vs-vplex-metro/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/04/hds-ham-vs-vplex-metro/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:34:03 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=574 Whilst there has not been a specific blog post lately there has been a lot of discussion on the Why IBM SVC and EMC VPLEX are not the same post that I originally published back in August, but until recently I have not really felt the need to tackle HDS HAM vs VPLEX Metro. I am ...

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]]> http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/12/04/hds-ham-vs-vplex-metro/feed/ 0 VPLEX, Oracle RAC and SAP http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/10/23/vplex-oracle-rac-and-sap/ http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/2012/10/23/vplex-oracle-rac-and-sap/#comments Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:25:52 +0000 TheStorageChap http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/tscblog/?p=558 Great post by Tim Nguyen on the EMC Community Network on leveraging VPLEX, Oracle RAC and SAP, https://community.emc.com/community/connect/everything_sap/blog/2012/10/19/tim-nguyens-blog-on-vplex-for-sap-oracle-rac–part-2

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