Month: September 2013

  • VCE Announces New Vblock Offerings

    Today, VCE announced new additions to their Vblock converged infrastructure product line. The offerings announced include the Vblock Model 340, two new specialized configurations for high-IO workloads, and version 2.5 the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations management software.

  • Isilon and Data Centers and Forklifts, Oh My!

    Most of my blog posts are long and text-heavy. This one is short on text and mostly photos… Over the course of my career, I’ve been in a lot of different data centers. Some have been in interesting places, strange places, and some under frighteningly high levels of security. I’ve installed, fixed, and administered compute,…

  • Front Row at the EMC Speed 2 Lead Event

    If you follow the storage industry at all, you know that today EMC is holding their “Speed 2 Lead” event. To some, this event is also known as “Mega-Launch III”. During the event, EMC is making several storage product announcements at once. (“Several” is what separates a “Mega-Launch” from a simple product launch.) If you…

  • EMC Expands VSPEX Offerings

    Today EMC announced new offerings in its VSPEX program. VSPEX is EMC’s collection of pre-validated reference architectures, delivered by their channel partners. VSPEX provides a middle-ground. It offers greater speed for deployment than building and testing your own solution from scratch, and it provides more choice and flexibility than the converged infrastructure of the VCE…

  • EMC Announces AppSync 1.5

    Today EMC announced version 1.5 of their AppSync data protection software for the VNX storage platform. The software provides application-consistent data protection for applications running on VNX, regardless of whether they’re running on physical or virtual servers. AppSync provides an application-centric point of view and uses the native APIs of both VNX and RecoverPoint to…

  • EMC Announces XtremSW Cache 2.0

    Today EMC announced the availability of version 2.0 of their XtremSW Cache product. XtremSW Cache is EMC’s intelligent caching software. It allows storage admins to extend EMC’s FAST (Fully-Automated Storage Tiering) capabilities to server Flash. Doing so improves application performance by providing accelerated reads. Today, XtremSW Cache provides write-through caching (write-back caching is on the…

  • EMC Announces Next-Generation VNX – Takes It Full Multicore

    Today EMC announced the availability of the next generation of their VNX unified storage platform, previously codenamed “Rockies”. The new platform — actually available for purchase for the past month or so — which some are calling “VNX2”, offers a significant performance increase over the previous generation. Rather than VNX2, EMC refers to this generation…