We’ve been working on the idea of a simple integrated copy data management toolset for some time – this was code named “Project Skyline”.
This is a basic, but beautiful idea.
First – customer response to ProtectPoint has been very positive. ProtectPoint enables primary storage replicas to be teleported over to a data protection tier transparently. This idea is “storage integrated copy management”.
This idea – expanded – is what EMC Copy Data Management (eCDM) 1.0 is all about.
eCDM delivers an infrastructure-layer policy management layer for managing copies between array replicas, movement to data protection tiers, compliance management against said policy, and then the use of those replicas wherever they may be.
If you think about things like AppSync and eCDM – they do something similar. The key is that they do it from two different operational points of view.
AppSync focuses on the app and the app owner looking at infrastructure. It puts data protection and recovery control into the hands of the app owner.
eCDM does the inverse – it’s copy data management as a horizontal infrastructure function, looking upwards at the app domain. It’s a good way to make sure the app owners are protecting themselves (and automating the copy management SLO to make sure – just in case :-)
v1.0 was launched today – and supports EMC’s primary storage portfolio local replicas across the portfolio, as well as copy data movement to Data Domain via ProtectPoint.
One thing that I really dig is the way this team embraced Cloud Native development approaches – not only how they developed the product, and in their SLO-oriented operational mode, and in their API-first philosophy, and in their rich tenancy model… but also in their aggressive use of open-source technologies at the root (to make it small, but scalable), and packaging as a virtual appliance from the get-go.
Cool – and congrats to the eCDM team – always fun when a new product is born!
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