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VMware DRaaS Announcements are a Good Thing!
Today, VMware announced enhancements to both its vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery. In both cases, VMware is essentially asking, “Why just BaaS when you can DRaaS?” Over the past three VMworld events: In 2013, VMware… Read more
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JBuff’s Data Protection Predictions for 2015
Last month, I sat down with my colleague, John McKnight, to give my predictions on how Data Protection will or should change in 2015 … in five minutes or less: My top areas of interest for this year include: Hope… Read more
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You can prepare for tomorrow’s disaster today
This week, many of my colleagues are preparing for Winter Storm Juno. One of my compatriots actually warned his friends on Facebook that he was going to run around supermarket aisles telling folks “We’re all going to die!!” But seriously,… Read more
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A Replication Feature is not a Disaster Recovery Plan
A few years ago, I blogged that “Your Replication is not my Disaster Recovery” where I lamented that real BC/DR is much more about people/process than it is about technology. To be clear, I am not bashing replication technologies or… Read more
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New Math: Virtualization plus DPaaS = BC/DR!
Maybe that is overly-simplified, but not by much. Virtualization makes servers (and their associated storage) portable, while Data Protection Services provide alternate locations and expertise that many organizations of all sizes have been desperate for. In 2013, ESG published complete… Read more
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I watched a DataCenter get hit by a Hurricane … and recover
I don’t often re-post vendor marketing content – but since they let me be a small part of simulating a hurricane/flood of a datacenter … Symantec rented out a 6-story hurricane (100mph) simulator in South Carolina … and then flooded… Read more