Tag Archives: Storage

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.

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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.

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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 … Continue reading

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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, … Continue reading

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Pure Storage Announces Major Release of Purity Operating Environment

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 … Continue reading

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Pure Storage Expands FA-400 Series Offerings

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Summary of EMC’s Monday Announcements

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:

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EMC Announces Service Assurance Suite 9.3

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.

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EMC Announces SRM Suite 3.5

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 … Continue reading

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