Tag: Virtualization

  • Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer

    Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing an Edge Filer close to the end-user clients. The Edge Filer uses a global name…

  • GeekFluent Round-up of VMware’s Announcements from Monday of VMworld 2014

    I’m here at VMworld 2014 and this year VMware has gone above and beyond. Monday’s opening keynote included more new product announcements than any other VMworld I’ve attended (I’ve been going yearly since 2009). Such a massive flow of info can be hard to keep up with without a program. Below you’ll find my summary…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 resources to form a single-layer, enterprise-grade storage product. You can also think of it as similar…

  • 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? Project Liberty is essentially a virtual appliance version of EMC’s VNX. But, wait, I can…

  • EMC Announces Next-Generation VNX – Takes It Full Multicore

    Today EMC announced the availability of the next generation of their VNX unified storage platform, previously codenamed “Rockies”. The new platform — actually available for purchase for the past month or so — which some are calling “VNX2”, offers a significant performance increase over the previous generation. Rather than VNX2, EMC refers to this generation…

  • EMC Enhances RecoverPoint (and takes it virtual!)

    Today, EMC announced version 4.0 of RecoverPoint.  The new version brings many exciting new features, my personal favorite being the availability of a virtual version of the RecoverPoint Appliance (RPA). RecoverPoint is a SAN-based data protection/replication solution.  It works through the use of a specialized RecoverPoint Appliance (RPA) installed on the SAN.  The solution uses…

  • EMC Announces VPLEX Metro Express Edition (plus VAAI support)

    [UPDATE: I’ve edited the post to remove one of the new features that had been mentioned in early pre-announcement briefings.  The features listed now match what’s actually been released.] Today, EMC announced updates to their VPLEX family of storage virtualization devices, including a new way to purchase it — the VPLEX Metro Express Edition. What’s a…

  • Evolution of Virtualization – The Whiteboard Video

    I posted before about having fun with whiteboards at VMware PEX, and I posted the draft outline for the “Evolution of Virtualization” whiteboard I did with Gabriel Chapman (@Bacon_Is_King). Today, Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja) has posted the final version of the video we recorded.  I have to say, the editing makes it look very professional. For…