Do Sheep Hop or Multi-Hop?!
I was talking to John McArthur the other day about a use case we are looking at with a customer in Canada. The customer doesn’t want to lose data if and when a disaster hits their primary data center,...
View ArticleProtecting All of the Data Through an Earthquake
You may have heard, there was a magnitude 5.3 earthquake in Serbia this week. Earthquakes are relatively common in Serbia. They’ve had more than fifteen >4.0 magnitude earthquakes in the past 10...
View ArticleTurning EMC RecoverPoint into Total Data Protection
It is an unfortunate fact that high bandwidth communication lines are required for metropolitan-area synchronous replication. They are also needed for frequent asynchronous transmissions of snapshots...
View ArticleGet Your Data Out of Town During Civil Unrest and War
The U.S. Department of State has issued travel warnings to U.S. citizens for thirty-one (31) countries. According to their website: “Travel Warnings are issued when long-term, protracted conditions...
View ArticleAcceptable Risk in Data Center Disaster Recovery Planning
Have you ever used this phrase? Well, I guess that’s a risk I’m just going to have to take. I’ll admit, I’ve said it myself, and it’s usually because either: I don’t think the risk is real I think the...
View ArticleAxxana Makes Some Magic: Synchronous for the Cost of Asynchronous
What if I told you that I could take your existing asynchronous infrastructure…and turn it into remote synchronous, zero-data-loss replication? No, I’m not a magician, and I don’t pull rabbits out of a...
View ArticleAdding A Second Data Center
Are you working for an organization that is considering upgrading from a single data center to a two-data-center strategy? If so, you are not alone. It doesn’t take more than a quick internet search to...
View ArticleProtecting Consistency Groups Against Human Error
What’s worse than losing your data? Losing your data and having no backup. What’s worse than having no backup? Having a backup that restores inconsistent data. That’s precisely the concern that Josh...
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