Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced updates to the Isilon scale-out NAS platform. The updates include two new hardware nodes, expanded Flash capabilities, and new data access methods.
I’ll walk through the updates below. Continue reading
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced upgrades to the XtremIO all-Flash array. The upgrades include increases in capacity, number of active controllers, and performance. Continue reading
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced a new backup/data protection solution called ProtectPoint.
Storage administrators already use a combination of array-based snapshots and backups to another device (either disk- or tape-based) to protect their users’ data. ProtectPoint combines these two — formerly separate — concepts into one elegant solution. Continue reading
Today, as part of their “MegaLaunch”, EMC announced the next generation of their VMAX storage platform. The new line is known as the VMAX3 and consists of three models, the 100K, 200K, and 400K which succeed the previous generation’s 10K, 20K, and 40K VMAX2 models respectively.
According to EMC, the new VMAX3 models provide: Continue reading
Today, Pure Storage announced a major release of their Purity operating environment. (Pure also announced two new hardware models, which you can read about here.) The new release, Purity 4.0.0, adds multiple new features including a RESTful management API, and the much-anticipated remote replication. I’ll walk through the details of what’s new in the release below. Continue reading
Today, Pure Storage announced two new models in their FA-400 Series line of all-Flash arrays. (Pure also announced a new major release of their Purity Operating Environment, which you can read about here.) The new hardware offerings “bracket” the previously-available FA-420, with one being smaller and one larger than it. (The “FA” in the model names stands for “Flash Array”.) I’ll walk through the details of the new models and other changes to the Pure line of arrays below. Continue reading
If you read my post on the product announcements at EMC World, and then followed any of the official coverage of the event, you may have experienced some slight confusion. Turns out between the pre-announcement blogger briefings and the actual announcements, there were two minor name changes. Let me make up for any inadvertent confusion by clearing it up. Continue reading
Today, on the opening day of EMC World, EMC made several new product announcements.
Below is a list of the announcements, along with links to my write-ups on the new announcements: Continue reading
Today, EMC announced the upcoming release of version 9.3 of their Service Assurance Suite.
The Service Assurance Suite assists with monitoring, root-cause analysis and management of solutions in the data center. Continue reading
Today EMC announced the upcoming release of version 3.5 of their Storage Resource Management Suite (SRM Suite).
[ASIDE: Across the IT industry, SRM has stood for “Storage Resource Management” for years. I’ve always found it unfortunate that two very different products offered by the EMC Federation (this and VMware’s Site Recovery Manager) share the same acronym…] Continue reading
