I know this is a little old-school, but since I didn’t find a good reference anywhere online … I am going to cover migrating VMWare ESX 2.5 datastores with EMC SANcopy in this month’s installment. If you find yourself in this situation—you will know that it works and how it’s done. I recently ran through …
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Two weeks ago, I had the honor of representing IDS at EMC World to receive our Velocity Services Quality Award. I say honor because this is one of those awards that really matters (in my mind) because it is solely based on Customer Feedback—the thing that ultimately drives our business. A little background on the …
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Not so long ago, disaster recovery collocation sites were a topic that everyone wanted to talk about … but nobody wanted to invest in. This was largely because the state of the technology left these sites sitting cold—it was simply the most expensive insurance policy one could think of. With the advent of dramatically dropping …
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Earlier this month, our Storage Practice Manager, Shawn Wagner, sat down with Karl Zimmerman, President and Founder of Steadfast Networks, to discuss the NetApp storage and backup solution we recently designed and deployed for their business’s datacenter in Chicago. With the cameras rolling, their conversation addressed the reasons for deciding on NetApp, relative to other manufacturer’s technologies or developing a in-house solution, …
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Lately, the question on everyone’s mind has been: is it possible to replace your aging backup strategy with array-based snapshot and replication technology? The inevitable follow-up to that question: why is this so hard to swallow by so many of us, and why do we have a hard time accepting it? It all boils down to …
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