Who Knew, ‘Version’ and ‘Geography’ are Now Important

Who Knew, ‘Version’ and ‘Geography’ are Now Important

A few weeks ago I attended a presentation on data protection. The presentation talked about “5 things to think about when building out your data protection solution”. The presentation talked about the typical things:

Classify your dataRPORTO

and then they talked about two other things I had not heard of:

VRO (version recovery objective)GRO (geographic recovery objective)

My first reaction was, okay, here is another vendor trying to pain a picture of something only their… Read more »

Is it Copy Data: Cortex or Vortex?

Is it Copy Data: Cortex or Vortex?

Today I listened to the podcast by one of my absolute favorite industry influencers Mark Twomey (@storagezilla). The title of the podcast was The Copy Data Cortex. It featured another industry insider with a great deal of knowledge Stephen Manley, CTO of Core Technologies at EMC, and they were talking about “Copy Data”, and as Mark put it “…it isn’t the wave of the future, it is a present thing…”.

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