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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

Dell-EMC, Storage, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld

August 29, 2014
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

Events, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld, Wrap-up on Backup (post event)

August 18, 2014
vBlog: How to Ensure the Availability of the Modern Data Center

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… Read more

Backup-to-Disk, Hyper-V, Videos and Webcasts, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld

May 19, 2014
vBlog: What to look for in Virtualization Protection in 2014

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… Read more

Backup-to-Disk, Hyper-V, Videos and Webcasts, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld

November 25, 2013
Channel and Service Provider Opportunities in Protecting Virtualized Environments

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… Read more

Channel-and-SPs, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld

August 26, 2013
Video: Separate VM backups or Unified Protection?

As many in the IT industry are getting ready for VMworld, my mind always wanders back to what seems to be the perennial question – “Use a separate backup solution for protecting VMs … or a single solution for physical… Read more

Hyper-V, Research Findings, Videos and Webcasts, Virtualization, VMware-VMworld

August 21, 2013