Category Archives: Storage
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
My Schedule for EMC World 2013
EMC World is almost here, and I’ve been spending a bit of effort figuring out how my time there would be best spent, and think I’ve got my schedule more or less worked out (there are only a couple double-bookings … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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, … Continue reading
EMC Announces VMAX Cloud Edition
Today, EMC announced the Cloud Edition of their signature Symmetrix VMAX storage platform. Timed to coincide with the VMware Partner exchange conference, there have been rumors about this announcement for a while, but now we’ve got some details. Release of … Continue reading
EMC Isilon Support for 20PB Filesystems
Yesterday, EMC announced that Isilon clustered storage can now support a single filesystem up to 20PB in size. When I read the announcement, my first reaction was “That’s a big deal.” Then, as I read more and thought about it, … Continue reading
