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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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Economized Virtual Server-Side SAN Technology

Businesses supporting multiple remote locations often find that they cannot leverage the cloud to service their end users in the field. For example, large retail chains sometimes have a need to support hundreds of stores across the United States. While…

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What’s causing your virtualization problem?

– hint: your non-virtualized servers Watch Our Webinar on Demand “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash“ We all know about the challenges with server virtualization. The highly random workloads that hypervisors create can cause fits for the shared storage…

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What is the Next Generation Data Center?

– and why all organizations should want one Watch the Webinar on Demand: “Storage Requirements for the Next Generation Data Center” Cloud providers face some significant challenges, especially with storage. Many run very dense VM-to-host ratios that create highly random…

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All-In-One Flash Management

First there was server sprawl, then there was storage sprawl and now it’s “performance sprawl”. Performance sprawl occurs when there are multiple pools of flash storage spread out across the data center. For example, many organizations have flash resources inside…

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Secure File Sync And Share For The Enterprise

Protecting sensitive corporate information has become increasingly challenging in today’s mobile world. Many business end-users in the field and in remote offices are doing an “IT end-around” by storing their files on consumer grade file sync and share services in…

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Server-Side, Converged Storage vs. Shared Storage

As I discussed at a recent event and covered in one of our top-read articles, “How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?“, this may be a year of significant change in the way we architect storage. There are three…

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