A Data Proteciton Reference Architecture – Part 4

Business Critical Applications

The tip of the triangle focuses on the applications (or data) that drives your business. It is these applications within your business that, should they go down for any length of time, cost you money. The recovery of this information, in the event of a ‘disaster’, needs to be very fast (RTO in minutes) and the data can’t be very ‘old’ when it is recovered (short RPO, less than 24 hours). Typically… Read more »

EMC World Kicks Off with Clouds and Virtualization

EMC World kicked off this morning first with a presentation from yours truly on Data Deduplication 2.0 - Comprehensive Capacity Optimization. We discussed how data deduplication 1.0 is morphing into all areas of EMC's storage ecosystem in order to optimize capacity everywhere. I talked about data deduplication as well as single instancing and compression are technology components that will help EMC achieve this goal.

Next Joe Tucci spoke in his keynote about how data deduplication… Read more »