The Storage Chap

Axxana – A Phoenix rising from the flames (literally)

Over 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...

VPLEX or ViPR

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...

The Four Tenets of Application Availability

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...

VPLEX Use Cases – Animated Descriptions

We 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

Oracle RAC and EMC VPLEX for Continuous Operations – Animation

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 Continue reading this entry →

HDS HAM vs VPLEX Metro

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, Oracle RAC and SAP

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

AccessAnywhere ProtectEverywhere

Learn why and how customers can use EMC VPLEX and EMC RecoverPoint to enable application availability and recovery in distributed datacenter environments.  

VIVE LA VPLEX REVOLUTION

I and some of my colleagues have been working on a new customer facing VPLEX presentation and in it we have used words like ‘Evolution’. For example, VPLEX is an evolution of traditional active-passive datacentres to active-active distributed datacentres. But...

VPLEX Metro Express Edition (VMEE)

VPLEX Metro has proven itself as the technology of choice for larger mid-market and enterprise organisations who have a requirement for true active-active, distributed datacenter infrastructures. VPLEX Metro Express Edition takes exactly the same, proven VPLEX  technologies and use cases, and...

Why IBM SVC and EMC VPLEX are not the same.

Whilst EMC VPLEX and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) may, after a cursory glance, appear to be similar technologies that have similar use cases it is not so black and white, the reality is that these solutions were conceived with very different...

VPLEX Metro – Server related cost savings

I had some what of an epiphany in a meeting with a large bank of US origin today. We were discussing the ROI of a VPLEX Metro configuration and talked through the usual things in regard to increases in application...

Oracle RAC 101 and what VPLEX Metro means for Oracle Extended RAC

Lots of questions on Oracle RAC and VPLEX over the last few days, so I thought it might be worth having a quick review. In a normal database environment a single instance of Oracle, runs on a single server and accesses...

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...