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 be disruptive and a game-changer. Continue reading
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 services without being tied to any specific hardware.
ViPR works by separating the control plane from the data plane. This means ViPR come in two parts, ViPR Controller, and ViPR Services. ViPR 2.0 makes additions on both sides. Continue reading
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 to VMware VSAN, but usable for things other than VMware.
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 hear you thinking this one:
Doesn’t EMC already make a VNX virtual appliance available? Continue reading
