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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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The Challenges and Benefits of Virtualization-Protection
Last week, my article in Windows IT Pro on “Virtualize Everything” stimulated a rather wide range of banter: · A few folks pointed out that some servers should not be virtualized, such as some DNS, Active Directory domain controllers and… Read more
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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for BCDR using EVO RAIL
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… Read more
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How to Protect an EVO RAIL (video series)
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… Read more
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EMC RecoverPoint for VMs is another step forward in vAdmin enablement
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,… Read more
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