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

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    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’s Project Liberty – Hints of Things to Come?

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    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…

  • VCE Announces New Vblock Offerings

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    Today, VCE announced new additions to their Vblock converged infrastructure product line. The offerings announced include the Vblock Model 340, two new specialized configurations for high-IO workloads, and version 2.5 the VCE Vision Intelligent Operations management software.

  • Front Row at the EMC Speed 2 Lead Event

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    If you follow the storage industry at all, you know that today EMC is holding their “Speed 2 Lead” event. To some, this event is also known as “Mega-Launch III”. During the event, EMC is making several storage product announcements at once. (“Several” is what separates a “Mega-Launch” from a simple product launch.) If you…

  • EMC Expands VSPEX Offerings

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    Today EMC announced new offerings in its VSPEX program. VSPEX is EMC’s collection of pre-validated reference architectures, delivered by their channel partners. VSPEX provides a middle-ground. It offers greater speed for deployment than building and testing your own solution from scratch, and it provides more choice and flexibility than the converged infrastructure of the VCE…

  • EMC Announces AppSync 1.5

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    Today EMC announced version 1.5 of their AppSync data protection software for the VNX storage platform. The software provides application-consistent data protection for applications running on VNX, regardless of whether they’re running on physical or virtual servers. AppSync provides an application-centric point of view and uses the native APIs of both VNX and RecoverPoint to…

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

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    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…

  • Achievement Unlocked: Certification Quest

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    If you follow me on Twitter, you may have caught some of the story of chasing certifications in October and how the best-laid plans meant nothing to Hurricane Sandy. Despite the obstacles thrown in our way, my teammates and I charged ahead and succeeded in the Bold Plan that was Certification Quest, wherein 6 people…