RMC 4.0 is now on general availability so I’d like to use today’s BURAmeter article to overview some of the new features introduced with this release. Delivered as standard with every HPE 3PAR StoreServ 8000 and 20000 model, RMC 4.0 expands the RMC ecosystem to include application-consistent protection for SAP HANA, support for StoreVirtual VSA and the ability to run RMC on a Hyper-V virtual machine. RMC 4.0 also broadens RMC’s potential use cases with bi-directional replication between HPE 3PAR and HPE StoreVirtual arrays. Let’s take a closer look at the data protection challenges that this solution is designed to address and overview the key benefits that RMC 4.0 can deliver HPE 3PAR StoreServ All-Flash customers.

Some people like to live life on the edge, facing their fears and trusting everything on the thinnest veneer of protection. After all, when you consider that the most integral part of a shark diving experience is the resiliency of your cage, how it's constructed and laid out suddenly becomes an important consideration. You only need to do a quick search of YouTube to see what happens when cages are poorly constructed. Cages assembled with nuts and bolts are clearly to be avoided. But in a welded cage, details are vital. Both MIG (metal inert gas) and TIG (tungsten inert gas) are solid techniques but only TIG welding, carried out by a consummate professional, is tough enough to withstand the charge of a great white. Facing your fears in the ocean, hundreds of miles from land, is not the place to make your safety checks.

80% of your data is rarely or never accessed after 90 days of creation. However, the business value of much of this data means it still has to be retained and readily available over extended periods of time.

Flash changes the game for storage. But how can you ensure that data protection doesn’t become a costly bottleneck for your flash workloads? Let’s find out how you can get the most from your migration to flash by making data protection an application-integrated function of flash storage.

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – which takes effect May 25th, 2018 - is the most significant and comprehensive global data privacy regulation ever developed. It presents any organization that collects personally identifiable information of EU citizens with two choices: Ensure sensitive customer data is kept secure and protected or face severe financial penalties and damaging reputational consequences.