EMC World – Session Notes – RecoverPoint: Accelerated Recovery in a Virtual Environment

Fantastic session….very good content and great demos. 4.0 Features Virtual RPA's 7x capacity Fan-in 4:1 or 1:4 SRM any point in time support with RP New Unisphere looking RP GUI Sync replication over IP 4.0 Themes covering in this session - Virtual RPA, Simplified UI, Any PiT with SRM, REST API, Hyper-V CSV Support, Multi-Site … Continue reading EMC World – Session Notes – RecoverPoint: Accelerated Recovery in a Virtual Environment

EMC World – Session Notes – Source One 2013

Best line of the session - Backup is about recovery, archive is about discovery.   Notes after the jump…    All bullets... Most content not active - study across 37 large customers... 4% non-business related 6% unknown 18% duplicates 48% Stale 24% Active, known relevant Storage is cheap but is more than just acquisition cost - … Continue reading EMC World – Session Notes – Source One 2013

EMC World – Session Notes – VPLEX: Advanced Technology Deep Dive for VMware HA & FT Over Distance

Oliver Shorey presenting - EMC CSE Tech overview, best practices, etc. Good session - went medium level technical. More after the jump… Scenario overviews.. vMotion for planned maintenance - we all understand this, right? DRS for Load Balancing - we all understand this too, right? HA if a host goes down - crash-consistent reboot FT … Continue reading EMC World – Session Notes – VPLEX: Advanced Technology Deep Dive for VMware HA & FT Over Distance

EMC World – Session Notes – AppSync: Managing VNX Protection of Critical Microsoft Applications and VMware

Will cover product details, roadmap, and demo. Intermediate level Technical Content   Creating a Data Protection Strategy 1. Replication increasing - bandwidth becoming cheaper, replication becoming easier, etc.      Nice IDC numbers and quote here 2. Map technology to recovery objectives - classic RPO & RTO discussion (if you don't know what this is, … Continue reading EMC World – Session Notes – AppSync: Managing VNX Protection of Critical Microsoft Applications and VMware

EMC World General Session – Pat Gelsinger

Summary Started a bit late due to technical issues in the Bloggers Lounge - notes will be live and therefore a bit rough I like Gelsinger as a presenter but there wasn't much new here from an overall vision perspective. Too much noicse in the bloggers lounge for great notes….I greatly appreciate EMC providing a … Continue reading EMC World General Session – Pat Gelsinger

EMC World General Session – Joe Tucci & Paul Maritz

8:30 Tuesday morning - brutal for IT folk IMHO   Tucci taking the stage Through the years      EMC World started in 2008 - $5.4 billion in 2002. From 2008 to 2012 is $12 billion revenue to $21.7 billion      2002 was first version of it - had Symmetrix, some Clariion, not very … Continue reading EMC World General Session – Joe Tucci & Paul Maritz

EMC World – Keynote – Software Defined Storage and more

So…these notes are pretty rough. As long as no one complains about them being too rough, I'll keep posting them (I'm no Scott Lowe here ;-).   Jeremy Burton - @jburton - came out, opened his shirt and wearing a storage superhero t-shirt. Has a blue LED on it like EMC storage cabinets. Gave away … Continue reading EMC World – Keynote – Software Defined Storage and more