Category: Virtualization
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EMC Enters Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market with VSPEX Blue
Today EMC announced their entrance into the hyperconverged infrastructure space with a new product named VSPEX Blue. The product is based on the EVO:Rail configurations supported by VMware. The EVO:Rail specifications were announced at VMworld 2014. At that time, only a few hardware vendors had EVO:Rail offerings. More have come since then, with EMC being…
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GeekFluent Round-up of VMware Announcements from Monday of Partner Exchange
I’m at the VMware Partner Exchange conference now. The pre-conference boot camps have finished up, and the “main” conference is starting. As part of the pre-conference events, VMware made several product announcements, including: vSphere 6.0 vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Extensions VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) VSAN 6.0 I’ll give an overview of each below.
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Headed to VMware Partner Exchange (#VMwarePEX)
In less than 48 hours, I’ll be boarding a plane to San Francisco to attend this year’s VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) conference. PEX is a VMware partner-only conference that’s always been a great learning and networking experience for me. Almost all of the vendors my company partners with will be there, too. If you’re going…
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Avere Announces Software Updates, Adds Virtual FXT Filer
Today Avere Systems announced an update to the AOS software (version 4.5) that runs on their FXT Edge Filers. The big news in this version is the addition of a Virtual Edge Filer, the vFXT. Avere’s FXT works by placing an Edge Filer close to the end-user clients. The Edge Filer uses a global name…
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VCE Announces Seven New Products in its Largest Launch to Date
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…
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GeekFluent Round-up of VMware’s Announcements from Monday of VMworld 2014
I’m here at VMworld 2014 and this year VMware has gone above and beyond. Monday’s opening keynote included more new product announcements than any other VMworld I’ve attended (I’ve been going yearly since 2009). Such a massive flow of info can be hard to keep up with without a program. Below you’ll find my summary…
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EMC’s Nile Makes the Leap from Project to Product
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 on commodity storage hardware. It was clear from the beginning that EMC intended Nile to…
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EMC Announces Major Updates to Their SDS Platform – ViPR 2.0
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 will always require that hardware be involved, software-defined storage allows the ability to provide storage…
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EMC Announces Version 1.30 of ScaleIO
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 resources to form a single-layer, enterprise-grade storage product. You can also think of it as similar…
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EMC’s Project Liberty – Hints of Things to Come?
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…