Category Archives: Storage

Name Changes in the EMC Lineup

Posted on 7 May 2014 by GeekFluent

If you read my post on the product announcements at EMC World, and then followed any of the official coverage of the event, you may have experienced some slight confusion. Turns out between the pre-announcement blogger briefings and the actual … Continue reading →

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Summary of EMC’s Monday Announcements

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

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:

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EMC Announces Service Assurance Suite 9.3

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

Today, EMC announced the upcoming release of version 9.3 of their Service Assurance Suite. The Service Assurance Suite assists with monitoring, root-cause analysis and management of solutions in the data center.

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EMC Announces SRM Suite 3.5

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

Today EMC announced the upcoming release of version 3.5 of their Storage Resource Management Suite (SRM Suite). [ASIDE: Across the IT industry, SRM has stood for “Storage Resource Management” for years. I’ve always found it unfortunate that two very different … Continue reading →

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EMC’s Nile Makes the Leap from Project to Product

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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EMC Announces Major Updates to Their SDS Platform – ViPR 2.0

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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EMC Announces Version 1.30 of ScaleIO

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

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 … Continue reading →

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EMC Announces Addition to the Data Domain Family, the DD2200

Posted on 5 May 2014 by GeekFluent

Today, in one of the product announcements made on the opening day of EMC World, EMC announced an addition to their Data Domain line of purpose-built backup appliances, the model DD2200. DD2200’s Place in the Data Domain Line Unlike the … Continue reading →

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EMC’s Project Liberty – Hints of Things to Come?

Posted on 30 April 2014 by GeekFluent

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? … Continue reading →

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EMC Announces New VNXe Model – A Complete Makeover

Posted on 30 April 2014 by GeekFluent

Today, as part of the build-up to the flurry of announcements that will come at EMC World,  EMC announced a new addition to their entry-level storage line. The new addition has all of the ease-of-use features that VNXe customers are … Continue reading →

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