Developing Recovery Service Objectives (2 of 2)

Developing Recovery Service Objectives (2 of 2)

 
Recovery Service Objectives (RSO) are the publicly visible service commitments that dictate the infrastructure needed to deliver the DR Service Offerings.
The next service objective is the RPV (Recovery Production Volume). The relative volume capability projected following a disaster event. Many organizations do not address this critical component of recovery. How much data will be processed [...]

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Developing Recovery Service Objectives (1 of 2)

Developing Recovery Service Objectives
Recovery Service Objectives (RSO) are the publicly visible service commitments that dictate the infrastructure needed to deliver the DR Service Offerings.
In previous blogs we covered the empirically based Business Impact Analysis or BIA. The BIA process provides us with the tangible cost to the organization should a business unit be unable to [...]

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VPLEX for Storage Federation: A New Approach to Virtual Storage

VPLEX for Storage Federation: A New Approach to Virtual Storage

 
EMC’s VPLEX can integrate with VBlocks and leverage VMware, Cisco, and EMC packages which provide a solution for computing, network, storage, and management.
VPLEX is a pay as you grow module, starts small and grow as you need. The VPLEX comes in two configurations:
• VPLEX Local – allows data mobility across arrays in a local data center [...]

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VDI Monitoring and Capacity planning choices (Part 1 of 5)

VDI Monitoring and Capacity planning choices (Part 1 of 5)

The past few days I have been setting up some evaluations of various tools used to monitor a VMware View implementation. I thought I’d share what I’ve seen so far. These are not full technical reviews of the products, in fact I’ve linked to quite a bit of external content that I’ve found, but rather [...]

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Customer Support Services

Customer Support Services

Service is everywhere. And most days, we don’t even notice it.  Think about it.  Go to your local hamburger place.  You get ‘service’.  Wait in line at the Dairy Queen..At the window, you get ‘service’. Or what about the folks who greet you at Walmart?  The sales people at Macy’s? Your insurance agent.  Your real [...]

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Taking a low tech approach to a high tech event – EMC World

Taking a low tech approach to a high tech event – EMC World

Taking a low tech approach to a high tech event
I showed up at the EMC World event with nothing more than my jacket and trusty analog recording device (pen). Not wanting to drag a laptop bag around all day or be distracted by any games installed I figured this was the best way to sample [...]

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Thinking about Disaster Recovery

Thinking about Disaster Recovery

There are many platforms and requirement metrics to consider when developing a Disaster Recovery (DR) plan and the infrastructure design to support it. The recovery of the compute platform and to what level of performance is usually pushed toward the end because of the metrics involved. A metric that is routinely examined, but is difficult [...]

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Reduce costs with Deduplication

Reduce costs with Deduplication

Nowadays, the economic situation globally is not quite stable. Enterprises are looking for ways to reduce costs and increase efficiency – optimization technologies are considered to be the most important and significant. Enterprise industries are facing a two-sided challenge: store and manage increasing amounts of data while simultaneously reducing the carbon footprint — they are [...]

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GlassHouse’s Robbie Higgins RSA Recap

GlassHouse’s Robbie Higgins RSA Recap

GlassHouse’s Robbie Higgins RSA Recap

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Security as a Service – RSA

Security as a Service – RSA

GlassHouse asks: “What did you take away from your session?” Security as a Service – RSA

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Worst practices in IT Security: RSA

Worst practices in IT Security: RSA

GlassHouse asks: “What did you take away from your session?” Worst practices in IT Security: RSA

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GlassHouse visits the RSA bookstore

GlassHouse visits the RSA bookstore

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MOBOTS (Mobile phone BOTS)-RSA

MOBOTS (Mobile phone BOTS)-RSA

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One Vendor – or Two, or Three or…

One Vendor – or Two, or Three or….
In today’s market place, we typically run into two philosophies. Its either a one throat to choke philosophy that seeks advantage through leverage of one point of contact and negotiation, or it’s a choose two and play them off against each other philosophy. Sometimes we find the [...]

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