Category: EMC

  • Summary of Monday’s Announcements at Dell EMC World 2017

    As you might have expected from a conference that was essentially created by combining two huge tech events (Dell World and EMC World), there were a large number of announcements made on the first day of Dell EMC World 2017. To help you manage the influx of so much information, this post will attempt to…

  • A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    A Closer Look at the All-Flash Isilon, aka Nitro

    On 19 October, Dell EMC made an announcement about the All-Flash Isilon nodes. This product line has been code-named “Project Nitro”. The announcement was timed to occur during the first-ever Dell EMC World event. I’ll walk through what was announced, and then provide additional details.

  • EMC Announces New Mid-Range Unified Storage Platform – Unity

    Today, at EMC World, EMC announced their new mid-range unified storage platform, called Unity. Some time last summer, I remember thinking that it was weird that we hadn’t seen a “Mega-Launch” event announcement from EMC. VNX2 seemed due for a refresh, but nothing happened. Now I know why — the EMC team was working on…

  • What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0

    What’s New in Isilon OneFS 8.0

    You may remember that back in November EMC announced new features coming to Isilon. Most of the message focused on the IsilonSD Edge virtual appliance, but a lot of the rest had to do with “OneFS.NEXT” (which we all expected to be numbered 8.0). About 3 weeks ago, OneFS 8.0 became GA. The availability of…

  • EMC Elect 2016 – Just the Facts

    EMC Elect 2016 – Just the Facts

    Yesterday, EMC announced the list of those who had been awarded the EMC Elect designation for 2016. The EMC Elect is EMC’s community recognition program. Now in its fourth year, the Elect program seeks to recognize those who exhibit engagement with the EMC community, commitment to be “part of the EMC conversation day in and…

  • EMC Announces Plans to Make Isilon Announcements in 2016

    [NOTE: This post has been updated with answers to some of the questions I had at the time of the announcement. The updates are inline, below.] Today, EMC made some announcements about some new Isilon products that they hope to make Generally Available (GA) in “early 2016”. If you’ve been following Isilon closely like I…

  • Dell to Acquire EMC for $67 Billion – GeekFluent’s Thoughts

    Today, Dell, Inc. announced that they — along with private-equity firms Silver Lake, MSD Partners, and Temasek — have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EMC Corporation for $33.15 a share. This price comes out to approximately $67Billion in cash and stock, making it the single largest pure-tech takeover ever.

  • EMC World 2015 Discount Code Giveaway

    As in past years, EMC has given members of the EMC Elect community registration codes good for a $150 discount on the cost of this year’s EMC World registration. Thanks to the generosity of my fellow EMC Elect members Hrvoje Crvelin, Ian Anderson, Mohammed Salem, Fabio Chiodini, Brett Sinclair, and Rob Peglar I currently have access to…

  • Journey to EMC Elect 2015 (with Bonus Number-Crunching)

    Today, EMC announced the list of names of those people named to the EMC Elect program for 2015. Now in its third year, the EMC Elect program seeks to recognize engagement with, commitment to, and leadership in the EMC technical community-at-large. EMC has been very active in reaching out to the Elect community, working to involve…

  • EMC Announces New High-Density Isilon Node – the HD400

    Yesterday, EMC announced the addition of a new node type to their Isilon scale-out storage line. This new node offers higher-density storage than any other Isilon nodes, specifically 354TB raw capacity in 4U of rack space. The new node, known internally at EMC as “Colossus”, has been launched as the HD400. I’ll walk through the…