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
Summary of EMC’s Monday Announcements
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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 on commodity storage hardware.
It was clear from the beginning that EMC intended Nile to be disruptive and a game-changer. Continue reading
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 will always require that hardware be involved, software-defined storage allows the ability to provide storage services without being tied to any specific hardware.
ViPR works by separating the control plane from the data plane. This means ViPR come in two parts, ViPR Controller, and ViPR Services. ViPR 2.0 makes additions on both sides. Continue reading
