Category Archives: Software-Defined

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’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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