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Alright, How you doing? I'm Dan Bogda. I'm the Cisco Technical Lead for EMC and with me we have...
-Craig Chapman, Senior vSpecialist for EMC.
-So Craig, what are we here for? -The Cisco Workload Mobility demo.
Well, customers are interested in this because they want to know how they can take their workload,
push it across distance, and still keep it running. Continuous access is key nowadays.
And many times, we see customers going, "I need to get access at all times. I can't have down time."
And one of the ways they achieve that is leveraging an OTV from Cisco and VPLEX from EMC.
-So what kind of use cases can customers use this for?
-Well, we can prevent downtime, we can application availability continuously,
we can do maintenance on an entire site; and then we can also have the ability to balance
workload across DR sources and active data sources, getting
ROI out of DR which has usually been the black hole of investment for IT.
-So we turn the DR data center into an active site and we can actually load bounce across those resources, huh?
-Yea, CFO's love that.
-Ok. So, where are we doing the demo, and what are we showing here at EMC World?
-So, here at EMC World what we have is; we have two Vblocks, 300's,
joined with Cisco Nexus 7K leveraging OTV. We have VPLEX installed.
And- so that provides us that layer that we need to go across data centers.
And Dan, really, we're moving active workloads with Oracle and Swingbench across that.
-Is this the first time we're doing it or have we done this before?
-We've done it before at Cisco Live London and we're going to do it again at Cisco Live in San Diego.
-So we've got another show coming up. We're going to be taking the same gear, the same setup.
We're going to be showing more customers how we enable solutions, huh?
-Oh yea, it's going to be epic and Cloud freaky.
-Nice, So what else do you hear from the customers? Whats the feedback look like?
-They're excited. They want to know how they can do this in their data center.
And they want to know, from a partner side, how they can do it for their customers.
-Nice. Ok, so we'll see you at Cisco Live San Diego and upcoming future shows as well.