I have received a fair number of responses to my previous post on this subject (some via comments and some via email). I thought the discussion worthwhile enough to punch it up a bit more here.
Backup
As I pointed out in the previous post, EMC can easily match NetApp's play to back up ExaData with the following:
As Geoff Rosser so correctly pointed out, this answer is incomplete. Yes, Data Domain is an awesome Oracle backup solution. Yes, it provides incredible deduplication rates for Oracle database environments. (Thanks, dynamox.) However, it is not the only viable solution from EMC for backing up ExaData. For example, the following would also work:
As usual comments are welcome.
