First present of ‘15: Free to use Recoverpoint for VMs!

Well - here's the first present of '15 (and we've got more coming!)

The incredible, the awesome Recoverpoint for Virtual Machines (find out more here) is available for FREE DOWNLOAD:

http://www.emc.com/getrecoverpointforvms

I want to be CLEAR on what you get (because it's awesome)

• Kick-A$$ VM-level protection in a nutshell.
• Software-only VM-level IO splitter - this works by intercepting IOs in the vSCSI portion of the IO stack of vSphere.
• Software-only Recoverpoint Appliance
• Rich services - deep device counts, broad replication RPOs (from sync to async, time based, change based).
  snap and replicate techniques (think vSphere Replication as an example) = copies.  Recoverpoint is a continuous replication (journalled IO) technique - you can recover to any point in time.
• Local and Remote replicas
• Super efficient: compressed, deduped - in our experience the WAN efficiency is one of the highest of any replication approach on the market
• Larger scale than vSphere Replication.   Scale target is about 1000 VMs per vSphere cluster.
• . And works with just about any storage thing (can't put the journal on VSAN yet - coming soon).

And, I also want to be clear - this fits into the "new" EMC thinking on our software.  It's yours.  It doesn't time out.   It isn't feature limited.   Call it a "Trial" if you want - but it's the real deal.

YES, if you want support (and anyone deploying something into production without support is insane), you need to buy it.

Do me a favor, please.   I'm pushing people hard (and I'm not the only one) that this is how we should treat ALL of our software.  How can you help?  Download.  Try it.  Participate on the community.  Share.   If you dig it, buy (and do it on the EMC Store if you don't want to talk to sales :-)

Cool, no?   Happy 2015!

Comments

[Ssharwood]

Wasn't this already free when released last November?

[Adam Van Haren]

I think this is a fantastic initiative from EMC.
It's now on my shortlist of products to testdrive in our lab.

Thanks!