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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 [...]
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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – VNX Futures

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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Leading Your Transformation with ESD (VMAX, RecoverPoint, VPLEX)

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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Isilon Roadmap

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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Hyper-V for the VMware Pro

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Protected: EMC World – SE Conference – Flash: Today and Tomorrow

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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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EMC World – Session Notes – FAST VP & FAST Cache Sizing

If want higher quality images, check in the shared Evernote notebook (Varrow people) or email me and I’ll send you an Evernote link. All images – can view after the jump…  
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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VPLEX: Advanced Technology Deep Dive for VMware HA & FT Over Distance

Good session - went medium level technical and good info on APD and PDL failure scenarios.
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