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Author Archives: GeekFluent
EMC’s Nile Makes the Leap from Project to Product
EMC’s “Project Nile” was first revealed at EMC’s MegaLaunch event in 2013. The idea was hyper-scale private cloud storage at a cost-per-gigabyte similar to (or lower than) public cloud storage. The idea was to provide this storage via software running … Continue reading
Posted in ECS (Nile), Software-Defined
Tagged Announcement, ECS (Nile), EMC, ScaleIO, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, ViPR
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EMC Announces Major Updates to Their SDS Platform – ViPR 2.0
In another of their announcements on the first day of EMC World, EMC announced a series of major updates and new features for their software-defined storage (SDS) platform, ViPR. The new updates will be in ViPR 2.0 While storage solutions … Continue reading
Posted in Software-Defined, ViPR
Tagged Announcement, EMC, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, ViPR, Virtualization
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EMC Announces Version 1.30 of ScaleIO
Today, in one of the many announcements that kicked off EMC World, EMC announced the new version of their ScaleIO product. If you’re not familiar with ScaleIO, EMC defines it as a “software-only server-based SAN that converges storage and compute … Continue reading
Posted in ScaleIO, Software-Defined
Tagged Announcement, EMC, ScaleIO, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, Virtualization
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EMC Announces Addition to the Data Domain Family, the DD2200
Today, in one of the product announcements made on the opening day of EMC World, EMC announced an addition to their Data Domain line of purpose-built backup appliances, the model DD2200. DD2200’s Place in the Data Domain Line Unlike the … Continue reading
Posted in Data Domain
Tagged Announcement, BRS, Data Domain, DD2200, EMC, EMC World, VSPEX
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EMC’s Project Liberty – Hints of Things to Come?
Today, in addition to announcing a new model VNXe, EMC announced their Project Liberty as part of the pre-EMC World build-up. What’s Project Liberty? EMC is calling it a “virtualized storage software technology based on VNX”. What does that mean? … Continue reading
Posted in EMC, Software-Defined
Tagged Announcement, EMC, SDDC, SDS, Software-Defined, Storage, Virtualization, VNX
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EMC Announces New VNXe Model – A Complete Makeover
Today, as part of the build-up to the flurry of announcements that will come at EMC World, EMC announced a new addition to their entry-level storage line. The new addition has all of the ease-of-use features that VNXe customers are … Continue reading
More Heartbleed Protection: Update VMware Horizon View Client on Your Mobile Devices
The industry is still cleaning up following the news about the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL. VMware has released updated versions of the Horizon View Client for both Android and iOS. The easiest way to ensure you’re safe from the Heartbleed … Continue reading
Update OpenSSL on Isilon InsightIQ – Avoid the Heartbleed Vulnerability
[Instructions found herein are based upon the work of multiple other folks in this thread in the Isilon Support Forum.] By now, you’re likely aware of the “Heartbleed” security vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptography library. If you have an Isilon … Continue reading
Posted in Isilon, Security
Tagged EMC, Heart Bleed, How To, InsightIQ, Isilon, OpenSSL, Security
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VMware Announces List of 2014 vExperts
Earlier this week VMware released the list of 2014 vExperts. The community recognition program has grown since its start in 2009, with 754 vExperts being named this year — the largest group yet. I’m simultaneously proud and humbled to have … Continue reading
EMC World 2014 Discount Giveaway (limited quantities)!
EMC World, EMC’s annual big-deal conference is coming up 5-8 May in Las Vegas. As a side-benefit of the EMC Elect program, I have a (small) number of discount codes, worth $150 off the registration price, to give away. Thanks … Continue reading
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