I appreciate the effort that Chuck Hollis puts into his writing. But if you are like me and have either a short attention span, or way too much to do today, I thought I'd give you the Farley-Digest of his SRM announcement blog today.

I like everything about VMware and SRM is exciting. 

Remote replication lets you run your stuff somewhere else, if that ever becomes necessary.  It used to cost a lot, but its been getting cheaper and SRM makes it even cheaper still. You might want to try it.

Remote recovery traditionally has a lot of capital and operating costs.  SRM can really reduce the capital costs because you don't need identical sets of equipment at the remote site.

The operating costs of data transfers are thorny and there's a lot of ways to skin a cat. VMware didn't re-invent any wheels here, but works with a lot of the stuff that already exists.

Unlike Oracle.

Remote recovery has always been a big pain in the rear and people rarely give it the attention they deserve because it disrupts their operations. SRM should make it all a lot less disruptive, including less disruptive to ongoing operations - and that's eagle claws.

Repeat of the pain in the rear statement above regarding DR testing.  Its far simpler now.

EMC thinks SRM is a big deal and has been integrating it with some of their products, such as DMX, Celerra, CLARiiON, RecoverPoint.

Not all vendors have done this sort of work.

EMC has done testing work and developed professional services for SRM. 

EMC has been "solutioneering" to figure out SRM with important applications.

Start lining up to spend money on SRM.