 Live from Las Vegas, Nevada. It's theCUBE, covering EMC World 2015. Brought to you by EMC, Brocade, and VCE. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are live in Las Vegas for theCUBE at EMC World 2015. This is our flagship program. We go out to the events, and let's check the signal and noise. I'm John Perth. My co is Dave Vellante. Our next guest is Mark Lamont, a senior storage engineer with the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. I moved from Chicago, now living in Wisconsin. I'm still a Bears fan. We'll never be a packer. We just learned that. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, thank you very much. I'm a big Packers fan, because one of my high school, my son's high school teammates was a second round draft, first round draft pick, and had a great rookie season last year. So, that's the only reason why. But, you know, Bears, you know. Anyway, welcome to theCUBE. I'm a diehard. All right, so talk about why you're here. What are you guys talking about? What's the big data protection spotlight? Share with us. Well, Cancer Treatment Centers, we like to come out here every year and see the new and exciting things happening at EMC World. One of our focuses this year will be data domain, what's happening with data domain. And we just migrated off of the 4,500 platform in the 8,600, I believe. Yeah, and what we're doing out at Cancer Treatment Centers is we're moving towards our all virtualization platform. So, we just put in our VMAX3 and migrating to that. So, that's new and exciting for us. And you have other products from EMC as well. Oh, yeah. We have. Which products don't you have? That'd be easy. Well, what don't we have? We don't have Green Plum, the Atmos, anything along those lines. But the core products. We have VMAX. We have the VMAX. We have the V-Plex. We have Avamar. We have Data Domain. Recover Point. Icelon. We have the whole data protection suite, really, when it comes to EMC. What's your backup software? Is it Networker or is it? We have Avamar. And Data Domain. Oh, sorry, you said that. Yeah. So, we just put in, like I said, we put Data Domain in with the Avamar front end. So, we're running that. And that's... When did you put that in? That's just, we're still doing the migrations as we speak. So, that is happening right now. Is that the new product that was just announced? Or no? No, no. Okay, all right. So, you guys are creating an active-active kind of data model. Is that right? And you guys have a need for high-speed data. You have to have it available. Talk about the dynamics around the data and some of the things you guys do when you're doing a data center. Well, what we're doing right now, we're, like I said, we're migrating off of the VMAX II or VMAX III. So, that's our big project that's happening. And for our data availability, we're replicating everything off of our primary data center down to the DR data center in Chandler. And we're doing, for high availability, we replicate through RecoverPoint off of, through Vplex, the Vplex splitter. So, that's really our high availability model. And VMware virtualization? VMware virtualized with VMware. What percent are you virtualizing? We're 85 to 90% virtualized right now. Okay, got it. So, that is a very important feature functionality for us. So, what kind of windows are you guys looking to in terms of hours of the restore concept you guys are running here? I'm sorry? What's your window for your data restores? Data restores, we're doing image level backups now. So, we're down to minutes, really, with restores. So, RTO of minutes? RTOs are minutes. RTOs and RTOs are down to. RTO. RTO is two hours. RecoverPoint, yeah. RTO is two, let me get my facts straight here. So, my RTO and RTO is are two minutes to two hours, really. Okay, so talk about some of the challenges that you're facing in your business and how those ripple through into your IT infrastructure and then specifically understand how you're dealing with those. Some of the challenges we're facing now is really just working with the business and getting the business to understand the needs. We're trying to understand what the business needs are, I'm sorry, working with understanding what their needs are from their availability and their data structures, and I'm sorry. Yeah, because they're saying, I mean, every business line's going to say, I need the highest availability, I need the fastest recovery time, I can't lose data, and I have no budget. More or less. So, figure it out, Mark. They're coming to us and saying that's exactly. What are you going to do for me? How are you going to make my data available, almost 100% of the time, and how are you going to do it across the five hospitals that we have? So, we're doing the virtualization out of the primary data center with our V-Plex and Recovery Point. Share the folks out there, the cancer treatment centers of America, what is it all about? What's some of the day in the life that you go through that might not be familiar with what your job's all about? Cancer treatment centers were primarily specialized in cancer, jeez, we specialized in cancer treatment care for stage, severe treatments, severe cancer patients. We have five hospitals across the country, and. That's great commercials. Thank you. See those commercials on TV. They're impressive. You're resonating to people that are struggling. Thank you. We do put our primary focus is the patient, and that is really what we do. We put everything into patient care. It's not really about the care itself, but taking care of the patient first. So, how do you spend your time? You get up in the morning, you got all this infrastructure, you got to worry about, how do you spend your day? My day is generally spent keeping the environment available. Really, I mean, and it's not, I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but there's, you know, we're doing less with more nowadays in the environment. So, what can I do to keep that environment available, whether it's through upgrades or bringing in the new equipment, standing that new equipment up. We have an aggressive refresh cycle, you know, a three-year refresh cycle. So, there's always something coming in. By the time we get something stood up, we're, you know, refreshing this over here, or refreshing the data domain, or the V-Plex, or the Avamar. Like I said, we are very, what's, we're very diligent about keeping that refresh cycle going. So, what's the philosophy behind that refresh cycle? Is that a financial? It's a financial, and just to stay on top of the technology. To maintain that availability, we feel, you know, we're not going to have hardware on the floor that's, you know, out of date, or you know, whether it's your support cycle or whatever. Right. So, Mark, we really appreciate you coming on theCUBE. Thanks for sharing your, your knowledge. Who's going to win the Stanley Cup this year? Any predictions? I'm going to go with Blackhawks. Yeah, Blackhawks, you want to do it again? I'll go with the Blackhawks. You think they're going to do it? Yes, I will. Broke our heart last year as Bruins fans. Great series of all time. And I don't know, I congratulate you for moving to Wisconsin. You can certainly get good beer up there, too, up there in Wisconsin. We get good beer. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. We'll be right back here live in Las Vegas after this short break. Thanks for watching. We'll be right back.