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No, not really -- but a surprising number of IT shops have moved beyond simple snapshots towards continuous data protection -- a DVR-like model that allows recovery to any point in time, and not just to potentially stale snapshot. Perhaps the best example of continuous data protection in today's marketplace is EMC's RecoverPoint. There's a lot to like in the product: extreme flexibility in defining protection modes, well-integrated with applications, operating systems and hypervisors alike, extremely efficient in its use of network and storage resources, and seriously storage agnostic on the back end. Customers have embraced the product enthusiastically -- there are now over 10,000 RecoverPoint units in production today, and more of our customers are coming on board every day. Don't get me wrong: snaps are handy things to have around, and they've saved more than one administrator's bacon over the years. But when you start studying the challenges associated with larger environments, better automation, efficiency, etc. -- you start looking for something with a bit more architectural meat on it. And that's where RecoverPoint shines. Today, EMC is announcing version 4.0 of RecoverPoint. This is no minor release; there's a slew of new capabilities that are worth reviewing.... |
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