Business Continuity Community

Protecting critical information from loss and ensuring resilience and availability of key business processes is more critical than ever, as business demands for better service levels continue to increase.

Learn how to leverage EMC's wide range of business continuity products, solutions and services at this year's EMC World. Check this page for updates on sessions and demonstrations showcasing new product capabilities, integration with key applications and environments such as VMware, as well as best practices from customers and EMC's services professionals .

Business Continuity Sessions
This ye ar's EMC World features a wide variety of business continuity sessions, addressing EMC business continuity technologies and solutions for a comprehensive range of EMC platforms and a wide range of customer applications and operating environments.

For a co mplete listing of business continuity and disaster recovery sessions, check the sessions and abstracts page and select the Category labeled “Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery”

Here's a sampling of these sessions to give you a glimpse of the range of topics and technologies:

Sessions on Business Continuity for Mainframe Environments
•  Automated Business Recovery using EMC Geographically Dispersed Disaster Restart (GDDR) and A utoSwap in a Symmetrix DMX Environment – Mainframe
•  EMC Disk Library for Mainframe Replication for Disaster Recovery

Sessions on Business Continuity for Microsoft Applications
•  CLARiiON and Celerra – Disaster Recovery Strategies for Exchange 2007
•  Streamline d Replica Failover in Windows Environments using Celerra and Replication Manager
•  Remote Replica Management for Backup Accelaration & Disaster Recovery of Exchange and SQL Server using Replication Manager and RecoverPoint

Sessions on Business Continuity for EMC Storage Platforms
•  CLARiiON Remote Replication via Fibre Channel and iSCSI
•  Managing EMC Symmetrix High Availability – Customer Case Study
•  Next-Generation Celerra Replicator: SLA Driven Disaster Recovery, and Data Distribution
•  Performance Aspects of Symmetrix DMX Local Replication Technologies
•  Performance Aspects of Symmetrix DMS Remote Replication for the Enterprise
•  SRDF Update and Cascaded SRDF
•  SRDF/A Best Practices

Session on Engaging Business Support for Your Business Continuity Initiative
•  Team Approach to Your Organization's Best Recovery and Availability Strategy

Protection solutions for VMware environments
As VMware technology continues to gain popularity and is deployed for an increasing number of business-critical applications, protecting these virtualized applications from unplanned downtime and data loss is becoming a more important IT priority. Learn how to leverage EMC business continuity technologies to protect VMware environments and learn about VMware 's new site Recovery Manager technology . Be sure to also check the following section for more details on how EMC RecoverPoint is optimized for protection of VMware environments!

Sessions
•  Introducing VMware Site Recovery Manager
•  Automating Disaster Restart using SRDF Replication and VMware Site Recovery Manager – Hands-On Workshop
•  Data Protection for Windows & VMware Infrastructure Environments Made Easy with EMC RepliStor
•  Using AutoStart and VMware to Improve HA and Provide Disaster Recovery Virtuall y
•  Replication Manager Streamlines Replica Management in VMware Environments

EMC RecoverPoint: data protection and recovery for VMware Infrastructure

EMC RecoverPoint is a local continuous data protection (CDP) and remote replication solution that provides point-in-time recovery for VMware environments. Virtual Machines (VMs) can be automatically recovered when RecoverPoint is used with VMware Site Recovery Manager to orchestrate and streamline the data protection and failover processes. RecoverPoint is the most flexible approach to protecting virtualized data—replicating VMware file systems (VMFS) to protect and recover a single VM or an entire VMware ESX server infrastructure.

Please check out these RecoverPoint for VMware Infrastructure lectures and demonstrations:

Sessions Lectures
•  Best Practices for VMware ESX Server Replication and RecoverPoint
•  Demonstration of Virtualized Storage Environments with EMC RecoverPoint and EMC Invista
•  Disaster Recovery with VMware Infrastructure using RecoverPoint

Demonstrations
•  RecoverPoint CRR and CDP for VMware Applications

New EMC RecoverPoint V3.0
EMC RecoverPoint V3.0 is the latest release of this heterogeneous data protection software family for local and remote replication in virtualized and non-virtualized data centers. With this new release, EMC RecoverPoint now provides a single solution supporting both local CDP and remote replication of the same data . Additionally, EMC CLARiiON CX3 integration makes RecoverPoint deployments easier and non-disruptive for CLARiiON users.

The RecoverPoint V3.0 lectures and workshops at EMC World include:

Sessions
•  EMC RecoverPoint V3.0 OverView and Update
•  EMC RecoverPoint - Demonstrating Operational Recovery and Disaster Recovery

Workshops
•  EMC RecoverPoint – Hands-on Workshop

More information
EMC RecoverPoint provides customers with the ability to quickly and consistently recover data with minimal business disruption in the event of a disaster, corruption, or other outage.  Hundreds of customers around the world are leveraging this solution, and this number is growing rapidly. The solution attained commercial success in 2007, achieving triple digit revenue growth, year over year, with close to 400 customers leveraging the solution.

Please check out our latest information:

Press Releases
EMC Extends Innovation for VMware Environments
EMC Simplifies Continuous Data Protection and Recovery

Collateral
EMC RecoverPoint Family data sheet
EMC RecoverPoint Family specification sheet

White Papers
Improving VMware Data Recovery with EMC RecoverPoint
Introduction to RecoverPoint 3.0 New Features and Functions
Using EMC RecoverPoint Concurrent Local and Remote for Operation and Disaster Recovery

Video
EMC Live: RecoverPoint V3.0: Next-Generation Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Check out RecoverPoint V3.0 on YouTube

Learn about New EMC PowerPath Encryption with RSA!

PowerPath Encryption with RSA is a new host-based solution for encrypting data-at-rest on disk, and helps organizations of all sizes support their enterprise security strategy, secure business continuity, and align with internal policies and external and governmental regulations. The initial release of PowerPath Encryption with RSA supports Symmetrix and CLARiiON arrays for Solaris and Windows. The product will eventually support heterogeneous storage environments. Coupled with RSA's Key Manager, PowerPath Encryption with RSA will protect information in the event it gets compromised (unauthorized users, stolen data, etc.) and to manage encrypted keys throughout their lifecycle.

Learn more about this exciting new functionality at these sessions and demonstrations, and a customer input session:

Sessions
•  PowerPath: Introduction and What's New in 2008
•  PowerPath Multipathing: Best Practices with EMC and Third-party Arrays
•  PowerPath Migration Enabler: Providing Non-disruptive Data Migrations
•  PowerPath Encryption with RSA: Delivering Host-based Encryption to Disk

Demonstration:
Don't forget to visit the pavilion to see the latest demonstration of PowerPath Encryption with RSA. This demo will show how PowerPath Encryption with RSA supports replication without any additional management steps.

Functionality highlighted in this demonstration includes:
•  Ease of accessing encrypted data from an array-based replica.
•  Encryption can be added to a data center environment without disrupting existing replication procedures
•  Secure business continuity by preventing replicated media from being compromised

Customer Input Session
A customer input session is your chance to provide product feedback directly to engineers and product management. These sessions are by invitation only. If you would like to participate in the EMC PowerPath CIS- please contact Giuliano_Thomas@emc.com.

To learn more about automated load balancing and non-disruptive path management with PowerPath, please visit here. The datasheet is located here.