With Cisco Live Europe 2014 picking up steam in Milan, a city known for fine fashion and hi-tech (and at times fashiontech), it’s exciting to be talking about the perfect accessory to the VCE Vblock System – the VCE Data Protection Solution, built from EMC Data Protection and Availability technology. I’m no fashion aficionado, but I do know this: nothing goes better with a converged infrastructure than a matching (integrated and optimized) Data Protection solution.
EMC DATA PROTECTION IS ALWAYS IN STYLE.
You’ll never have to worry that your data protection
doesn’t match your Vblock System.
Welcome to the yellow brick road of virtualization and convergence. You have begun the journey of data center transformation to combat the challenges of data growth, spiraling costs, and complexity. You will continue to have to buy more, expensive backup storage to keep pace, while losing a handle on your backup windows, leaving critical data at risk. By integrating and optimizing data protection into your converged infrastructure, you can tame the multi-headed beast of data growth, not only in your primary environment, but in your data protection environment too.
But you’re not done yet. You may think you have tamed the beast of data growth through convergence. The problem with data growth is that it’s a multi-headed hydra – even if you’ve addressed data growth in your primary infrastructure, you will still be dealing with it in your data protection environment unless you think differently.
“But how do I go about this?” I’m glad you asked. The first thing to do is to put on your ruby red shoes (always in fashion, whatever the season), click your heels together and say – “There’s no Data Protection like EMC” – three times over. The next (and last thing) you will ever have to do is let VCE walk you further down the “virtual” yellow brick road – because VCE can bake in EMC Data Protection with every order of ooey-gooey, converged goodness. Data Protection that’s pre-integrated, pre-tested, and pre-configured – optimized to protect your new investment, worry free.
VCE Data Protection offers a 3-tiered Data Protection continuum, starting with a strong foundation of backup and recovery. EMC Backup and Recovery software and hardware are optimized for a virtualized, converged environment like VCE. Leveraging efficient deduplication technology, you’ll be able to reduce the time it takes to complete your backups by 90%, sending only changed data across the network to the backup appliance. Not only will you conserve network bandwidth by 99%, but you’re also offloading you backup data from your primary network by implementing a VCE Backup solution. In the end, you’ll see a reduction in backup storage by 10-30x, saving you money while you become manager and commander in an ocean of explosive data growth. Finally, with tight integration to VMware vSphere, you’ll be able to not only backup, but also recover, your data and business critical applications – fast. 30x faster than the competition with Changed Block Tracking.
For added Data Protection, VCE offers flexible recovery points with continuous data protection through cross-site replication – this is leveraging EMC RecoverPoint. And, if your environment requires zero data loss and downtime, you can move up the Data Protection continuum and add EMC VPLEX for workload mobility and data availability in the event of an outage.
EMC Data Protection software and hardware offered by VCE are purpose-built to work together and carefully chosen to optimize your converged infrastructure investment. When you purchase your Vblock System, include EMC Data Protection solutions upfront so that you can get a handle on backup data growth once and for all. Don’t just be reactively fashionable – be a pro-active fashion trend-setter with VCE and EMC.