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InfoArchive & SourceOne: EMC’s Two Archive Products

Prior to attending EMC World, I was aware EMC owned only one archive product: SourceOne. It is capable of handling the archiving and e-discovery needs of email and file systems. SourceOne was developed by EMC several years ago after learning

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EMC World 2016 – EMC’s All-Flash Unity

EMC chose their annual user conference, EMC World 2016 as EMC’s coming out party for a new storage offering: Unity. While all the marketing around Unity focuses on an $18,000 all-flash configuration it is a hybrid solution available in hard

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EMC World 2016 – EMC Really is a Software Company

Storage hardware vendors like to refer to themselves as software companies. While it is true that most of them write storage software that runs on off-the-shelf hardware, most of them require that you buy their hardware to get their storage

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 3 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will give you a recap of EMC World day 3

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 2 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this podcast we will you a recap of EMC World day 2 and give

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 1 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way and StorageSwiss is there. Join me as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will do more than just give you

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ChalkTalk Video: Is it Time for Data Lake 2.0?

A Data Lake is a global repository. It collects data from a lot of sources, like sensors or the Internet of Things. A second generation Data Lake needs to evolve to get the data kept in the “lake” out to

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The Dell/EMC Deal: News and notes for October 16

The Storage Podcast looks at the proposed buyout of EMC by Dell. George Crump, Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the $67 billion deal and what it means to the storage business. Will it mean other companies in the storage

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ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming Storage Infrastructure Challenges

The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability

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ChalkTalk Video: An Incremental Journey to Software Defined Storage (SDS)

Some vendors present Software Defined Storage (SDS) as a revolution in the storage infrastructure. Data Centers, especially those with an existing investment in storage systems, are looking for a more incremental journey that allows them to move to SDS, while

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