Having fun with vExpert to employee ratios

As anyone reading this likely knows, the 2013 vExpert list was announced earlier this week (I'm honored to be a member for the second year now). vExpert 2013 awardees announced Shortly after, Jeramiah Dooley updated his 2012 vExpert analysis/breakdown for 2013 (I'm hoping this is a yearly tradition). 2013 vExpert Group, By the Numbers Reading … Continue reading Having fun with vExpert to employee ratios

EMC World 2013 – Blog Posts Reference

Just a wrap-up post given I wrote 10+ blog posts at EMC World 2013 - general sessions, keynotes, breakout sessions, and SE Conference sessions. Please note that the SE Conference session notes are password protected due to NDA material - please email me (amiller @ varrow . com) or catch me on Twitter or LinkedIn … Continue reading EMC World 2013 – Blog Posts Reference

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