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EMC RecoverPoint for VMs is another step forward in vAdmin enablement

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This week, EMC released RecoverPoint for VMs (RP4VM). For storage administrators, RecoverPoint has long been seen as the seamless synchronous/asynchronous storage replication of choice for EMC storage, to deliver higher levels of resiliency for enterprise workloads. But for virtualization administrators, it was part of the “magic” that made the storage under the hypervisor surprisingly durable … Read more

What I am looking for at VMworld 2014 … a Data Protection Perspective

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For the past few years, the big data protection trend in virtual environments was simply to ensure reliable backups (and restores) of VMs. That alone hasn’t always been easy, but with the newer Data Protection APIs from VMware (VADP), that is becoming table-stakes – and the real differentiation coming from the agility to restore (speed … 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

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

Channel and Service Provider Opportunities in Protecting Virtualized Environments

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As VMworld kicks off, I wanted to share some insights from ESG’s recently published “Trends in Protecting Highly Virtualized Environments” report. In a new research brief that ESG published this morning, we look at the ‘skills gap’ for data protection and virtualization. Click Here to check it out. As IT organizations move from 20% to … Read more