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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL

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Shortly after VMware announced its EVO Rail initiative, whereby hardware partners could start delivering a very dense compute, storage, and networking solution within a wholly-contained appliance – I started exploring the data protection aspects of an EVO Rail solution.  The nice folks in ESG’s video studio have produced a whole series on this … in … Read more

How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)

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VMware’s EVO RAIL is an architecture for a hyper-converged, software-defined data center in a single appliance form-factor … to be delivered by various hardware partners.  But how do you protect that all-in-one solution? For the next several weeks, ESG will be releasing a seven-part series of ESG Capsules, 2 minute video segments, where I’ll talk … Read more

vBlog: How to Ensure the Availability of the Modern Data Center

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When you really boil down the core of IT — its to deliver the services and access to data that the business requires. That includes understanding the needs of the business, its dependencies on things like its data, and then ensuring the availability of that data. "Availability" can be achieved in two ways = Resilience … Read more

JBuff on the Cube at IBM Pulse 2014

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While at IBM Pulse 2014, I was invited to sit in at ‘the Cube’ to talk about what’s new in Data Protection. We had the chance to talk about: Virtualization Protection Endpoint Protection How the Cloud is changing Data Protection Options And how IBM is evolving its data protection offerings to meet those demands. My … Read more

vBlog: What to look for in Virtualization Protection in 2014

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I spend a lot of time talking about protecting highly virtualized environments because so many people still struggle with it. In fact, ESG published a whole report on it earlier in 2013: ESG Report: Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments Server virtualization solves a lot of challenges for IT. And if I wasn’t a “backup … Read more