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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 [...]

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 [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

GlassHouse’s Robbie Higgins RSA Recap

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

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