Yearly Archives: 2014

EMCworld: An update on Viper – Podcast

Storage Switzerland’s George Crump is attending EMCworld in Las Vegas. This afternoon he is giving us a full update on Viper.   We will provide a final update on EMCworld that will be available Thursday morning, May 8.

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What to look for in flash accelerated software – Podcast

Are solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM a good thing for businesses that want to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability? We’ll talk about that with Pernix Data. Read Colm’s Article, Choosing the Right Flash

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The EMC, VMware and Pivotal Federation

One of the major themes here at EMC World 2014 is the “Federated” platform. In essence, this refers to the collaboration and partnership for delivering a totally integrated next generation hybrid cloud computing (or in EMC’s parlance – 3rd platform)

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VSPEX Enabled WAN Acceleration

Next up at EMC World we caught up with Tony Thompson and Everett Dolgner from Silver Peak. Our readers will be familiar with the fact that Silver Peak has been on the leading edge of providing software-defined WAN acceleration technology

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EMCworld: Elastic Cloud Storage – Podcast

Storage Switzerland is at EMCworld in Las Vegas. George Crump and I talk about EMC’s announcement of Elastic Cloud Storage.   Comeback for an afternoon update at 2 p.m. Central/Noon Paciific (For Wednesday, May 7.)

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Load DynamiX Grabs EMC Connect Award

One of the final highlights here at EMC World 2014 was the announcing of the inaugural winners of the EMC “Connect” award. The EMC Technology Connect program consists of 3rd party solution offerings that have been certified by EMC to

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EMC World Report – Can EMC Beat Google And Amazon With ECS?

At EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas, EMC Cloud Strategy continued to take shape. EMC, at least at this point, wants to be the arms merchant to the cloud provider market, enabling cloud providers and large enterprises to either compete

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EMC Announces The Data Domain DD2200

Beyond Entry Level Protection Storage Today at EMC World, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division announced the release of the new Data Domain DD2200 platform. This new system is designed to function as the new “entry-level” deduplication appliance in the

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10 Reasons that Flash Belongs in the Server

Watch the On Demand Webinar “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash” Maintaining storage performance is something IT has to do and there are a lot of ways to do it. Some are easy, some are complicated, some are affordable,

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How To Get Out Of the Storage Hardware Buying Game

For many organizations the time may finally be right for getting out of the storage hardware buying game. The idea of consuming storage as a utility is nothing new. In fact, the premise of utility based storage was brought to

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