Tag: EMC

  • EMC Enters Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market with VSPEX Blue

    Today EMC announced their entrance into the hyperconverged infrastructure space with a new product named VSPEX Blue. The product is based on the EVO:Rail configurations supported by VMware. The EVO:Rail specifications were announced at VMworld 2014. At that time, only a few hardware vendors had EVO:Rail offerings. More have come since then, with EMC being…

  • Headed to VMware Partner Exchange (#VMwarePEX)

    In less than 48 hours, I’ll be boarding a plane to San Francisco to attend this year’s VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) conference. PEX is a VMware partner-only conference that’s always been a great learning and networking experience for me. Almost all of the vendors my company partners with will be there, too. If you’re going…

  • VCE Announces Seven New Products in its Largest Launch to Date

    Today, in their largest announcement since EMC, Cisco, and VMware jointly announced the company’s formation five years ago, VCE announced seven new additions to their product lineup. These new additions consist of: 3 new Vblock models (System 240, 540, and 740) 2 new “technology extensions” (Storage (Isilon) and Compute (Cisco UCS)) 2 integrated solutions for…

  • EMC Announces RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

    Today, timed with VMworld, EMC announced a new version of their RecoverPoint data protection / disaster recovery product: RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. This is the product that came out of what was formerly being called Project Mercury. The new product, takes RecoverPoint further into VMware data protection than the RecoverPoint Virtual Edition did, allowing data…

  • GeekFluent’s Roundup of the EMC MegaLaunch Announcements

    Perhaps you remember EMC’s first big product announcement event under their then-new CMO Jeremy Burton. They called it a “MegaLaunch” and set out to break several world records as part of the event. If you remember 20 people stuffed into a Mini Cooper, you remember the event. Every year since then, EMC has repeated the…

  • EMC Announces Updates to Isilon Scale-Out NAS Platform

    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.

  • EMC Announces Upgrades to XtremIO All-Flash Array

    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.

  • EMC Announces ProtectPoint Backup Solution

    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.

  • EMC Announces Next-Generation VMAX Storage Array

    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:

  • Name Changes in the EMC Lineup

    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…