Ask the Expert: Continuous Availability for Mission Critical Apps, VMware & Oracle Environments

Welcome to this Ask the Expert event. This discussion will focus on how VPLEX in combination with RecoverPoint and VMAX can provide continuous availability in a variety of environments. Specific topics are:

• Combining virtualization and data protection for mission critical apps and data (webinar on Oct. 17)
• Enabling VMware tools to function across arrays and over distance (webinar on Oct. 24)
• Bringing five 9's continuous availability, and non-disruptive upgrades and patching to your Oracle environment (webinar on Oct. 31)

Register for each topic's webinar to get the background information and ask real-time questions, then join our experts here to continue the discussion. This event will begin on October 17 and end on November 7. Log in and "follow" the discussion to get notifications for this thread.

Your hosts:

	Charlie Kraus's career has been in data storage and networking, mostly with start-up companies. His expertise falls into several areas - data networking, data storage, cloud and the associated product management, product marketing and business development activities.
	Ely Cohen joined EMC in 2013, as Product Marketing Manager for RecoverPoint. As a team member in a number of startup companies over the years, Ely gained valuable technical knowledge, market understanding and business skills in different industries including enterprises, carriers and in the area of network management, voice and VoIP.
	Boaz Michaely is a Principle Product Manager for RecoverPoint. His main focus is the RecoverPoint joint offering with VPLEX and other parties and specifically the RecoverPoint REST API.
	Sam Lucido has over 15 years experience with Oracle database (7.x – 11g) and the E-Business suite (10.6 – 12). At EMC, he extended his performance architecture experience into VMware virtualization, becoming the knowledge expert in how to virtualize Oracle for the business. Sam now works for the Oracle Solutions Enablement group and manages the Everything Oracle at EMC community.
	Michael Guthrie has over 15 years experience with Oracle Applications database applications, including Oracle E-Business Suite (eBS) and Oracle application infrastructure architectures on EMC storage arrays and VMware virtualization software. He specializes in full life cycle project management, technical architecture design, integration, and implementation.