Why RPO=0 for All Data May Be the Best Approach
Maybe all data should have RPO=0. I was thinking today about a conversation I had a few years ago with the storage administrator of a major financial services company. I wanted to understand his...
View ArticleTurning EMC RecoverPoint into Total Data Protection
It is an unfortunate fact that high bandwidth communication lines are required for metropolitan-area synchronous replication. They are also needed for frequent asynchronous transmissions of snapshots...
View ArticleProtecting Unified Storage Down to the Last Byte
If all of the leaks and rumors reported by industry press are to be believed, EMC will soon announce the company’s latest unified storage offering. In fact, by the time you read this, it will probably...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery: What Happens When the Hammer Falls?
What’s the chance that you will be hit on the head with a hammer? What’s the probability that your data center will be hit by a major fire, a major flood, a hurricane, or an earthquake? Both are pretty...
View ArticleCan Data Survive Link Failures? Only with Axxana and EMC.
The Axxana solution, which is unique in the industry, is available today exclusively to EMC customers. To learn more about this EMC-Select solution, you can visit this link. For companies that have...
View ArticleGoogle: .02% of Users is a Big Number. 5 Days is a Long Time.
This post isn’t being written to be critical of Google. They have a tremendous platform. I know many people who use Google, not only for advertising and searching, but for blogging, for collaboration...
View ArticleAmazon Elastic Compute Cloud Data Loss. Ouch!
Amazon has built a fantastic reputation as a provider of cloud services. With multiple data centers, service availability levels at 99.9% and integrated data backup services, Amazon’s EC2 makes...
View ArticleChanging the World through Innovation
This week, as thousands of IT professionals converge at EMC World, many will be getting their first look at Axxana’s Phoenix System RP. The system, which integrates with EMC RecoverPoint and all...
View ArticleYou Should Have Known Better
Data privacy has been in the news a lot lately, and reports of information compromise are frequent. Countries are getting serious about data privacy and are imposing stiff fines for failure to...
View ArticleThe Halloween Scare of Replication Environments – Lag Size “Surprises”
Before installing the Axxana Phoenix System, we need to analyze the lag size in our customer’s asynchronous replication environment. We use this parameter to determine the size of the...
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