Simplify Data Protection and Disaster Recovery with vSeanClark

So the “day” job at Alliance Technologies has me prepping for a Tuesday afternoon presentation on a Sunday afternoon. Yes, who needs football, beers, naps and nachos, let’s write a presentation. Actually, this should be fairly short and will end up getting me back to the beer and football after a few short ideas get “etched” on various spinning rust-colored platters.  If you are interested in attending the presentation in person, you can learn more and sign up here.

Okay, this presentation is for a Dell co-sponsored event with Alliance Technologies.  So we’ll likely be discussing Dell Equallogic in depth, but I’ve been a HUGE fan of Equallogic even before going to work for a Dell partner, so don’t think for a second I’m selling out.    Anyway, my  main topic is “Simplify Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solutions”.  What are my 3 main keys to achieve simple?  Well that’s simple in my mind:

1. Virtualize your servers!
2. Virtualize your desktops!
3. Virtualize your data w/ virtualized iSCSI SAN from Dell Equallogic!

Yes, it’s dangerously simple to spout out those 3 bullet points but the devil is in the details.  I will flog and beat the devil to death in the next three posts and let you know how I arrive at simple, successful data protection and disaster recovery solutions that are repeatable, predictable and simple.