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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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What I Want to Talk About at VMworld 2015
In 2015, the question is no longer “Can I get a reliable backup of a VM?” With vStorage APIs for data protection (VADP) now being mature since 5.5, through 5.8 and up and coming in 6.0, shame on any backup… Read more
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What’s New in Data Protection from IBM Interconnect 2015
Every time that I take a close look at IBM’s data protection portfolio, veiled under its Storage solutions umbrella, I am happy surprised by the technology – and my guess is that you would be too. Among the announcements and… Read more
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Could VeeamON be the next MMS?
This week is the first VeeamON, Availability for the Modern Data Center, conference in Las Vegas. As I listened to the side conversations and such, I was reminded of the special-ness of Microsoft Management Summit (MMS). Not MMS 2010+, when… Read more
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Event Marketing Folks Don’t Get Enough Credit
With 25 years of attending tradeshows and launch events, I can attest that the Marketing/Events team does not get enough credit. Booth folks show up and find a massive display ready for them to click their mouse and start talking… Read more
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What I am looking for at VMworld 2014 … a Data Protection Perspective
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… Read more