Category: EMC
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EMC’s XtremIO Finally Available – Worth the Wait
Today, EMC announced the General Availability of XtremIO, their purpose-built all-Flash array. The announcement comes amid an unprecedented storm of pre-launch hyperbole from several vendors (as one might expect, very much “pro-” from EMC and rather “anti-” from some of the other all-Flash vendors). In this (somewhat lengthy) post, I’ll walk through an introduction to…
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Isilon and Data Centers and Forklifts, Oh My!
Most of my blog posts are long and text-heavy. This one is short on text and mostly photos… Over the course of my career, I’ve been in a lot of different data centers. Some have been in interesting places, strange places, and some under frighteningly high levels of security. I’ve installed, fixed, and administered compute,…
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Front Row at the EMC Speed 2 Lead Event
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…
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EMC Expands VSPEX Offerings
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…
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EMC Announces AppSync 1.5
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…
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EMC Announces XtremSW Cache 2.0
Today EMC announced the availability of version 2.0 of their XtremSW Cache product. XtremSW Cache is EMC’s intelligent caching software. It allows storage admins to extend EMC’s FAST (Fully-Automated Storage Tiering) capabilities to server Flash. Doing so improves application performance by providing accelerated reads. Today, XtremSW Cache provides write-through caching (write-back caching is on the…
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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…
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EMC Announces Updates to BRS Line (Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker), Part Two
Today, EMC announced updates across their entire BRS (Backup and Recovery Solutions) line of products, adding new data protection features. Due to size, I’ve split my analysis of this announcement into two parts, as follows: Part One: What Was Announced Part Two: What It Means (this post) Part Two: What It Means [DISCLAIMER: My breakdown of…
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EMC Announces Updates to BRS Line (Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker), Part One
Today, EMC announced updates across their entire BRS (Backup and Recovery Solutions) line of products, adding new data protection features. Due to size, I’ve split my analysis of this announcement into two parts, as follows: Part One: What Was Announced (this post) Part Two: What It Means Part One: What Was Announced EMC announced the…
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EMC Announces Upcoming Updates to Isilon OneFS
Today EMC announced upcoming updates to OneFS, the operating system for the Isilon scale-out storage platform. The new version of the software will offer new capabilities including: Support for Hadoop’s HDFS 2.0 Object Storage Extended RESTful APIs with support for EMC Atmos, Amazon S3, and OpenStack’s Swift Support for EMC’s newly-announced software-defined storage platform, ViPR…