Christophe's Corner

It was pretty interesting to hear from EMC this week with their (rushed) announcement of the DMX-5, sorry, Symmetrix-V, where the V stands for Virtual…I think, which really means “virtual virtualization” because it doesn’t do storage virtualization. Wait. I get it, it’s virtual reality!  Hu has a great perspective on this.

Last week I blogged on an announcement we made around mainframe compatibility updates, and the company’s focus on this business-critical platform. But wait, there’s more!

Many customers ask us what their target Recovery Point Objective (RPO) should be and how to achieve such targets. Unfortunately I can’t answer this question on broad terms because it’s really dependent upon each situation. The good news is I can safely assume that if you’re looking at a critical, highly transactional type of application [...]