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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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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
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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
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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
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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