I appreciate the effort that Chuck Hollis puts into his writing. But if you
are like me and have either a short attention span, or way too much to do today,
I thought I'd give you the Farley-Digest of his SRM
announcement blog today.
I like everything about VMware and SRM
is exciting.
Remote replication lets you run
your stuff somewhere else, if that
ever becomes necessary. It used to cost a lot, but its been getting cheaper
and SRM makes it even cheaper still. You might want
to try it.
Remote recovery traditionally has a lot of capital and operating costs. SRM
can really reduce the capital costs because you don't need identical sets of
equipment at the remote site.
The operating costs of data transfers are thorny and there's a lot of ways to
skin a cat. VMware didn't re-invent any wheels here, but works
with a lot of the stuff that already exists.
Unlike Oracle.
Remote recovery has always been a big pain in the rear and people rarely give
it the attention they deserve because it disrupts their operations. SRM should
make it all a lot less disruptive, including less disruptive to ongoing
operations - and that's eagle claws.
Repeat of the pain in the rear statement above regarding DR testing. Its
far simpler now.
EMC thinks SRM is a big deal and has been integrating it with some of their
products, such as DMX, Celerra, CLARiiON, RecoverPoint.
Not
all vendors have done this sort of work.
EMC has done testing work and developed professional services for SRM.
EMC has been "solutioneering" to figure out SRM with important
applications.
Start lining up to spend money on SRM.