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EMC World 2015 – From PBBA to Protection Storage

Posted on May 5, 2015 by George Crump

While the basic backup process will probably always be the foundational component of data protection, IT professionals are demanding more from the data protection process, functions like replication, archive, snapshot management and application availability. Purpose Built Backup Appliances (PBBA) need…

Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, EMCworld2015, PBBA, RPO, RTO
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EMC World 2015 – Building a Data Services Community with FAST.X

Posted on May 5, 2015 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing almost every IT organization is storage system sprawl, a problem that is increasing. When we visit a data center there is often a storage system for each workload; one for virtual desktops, one for virtual servers, one for…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Briefing Note, Cloud storage, Elas, EMC, EMCworld2015, Object Storage, VMAX
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EMC World 2015 – XtremIO Achieves Data Center Scale

Posted on May 4, 2015 by George Crump

The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Briefing Note, Disaster recovery, EMC, EMCworld2015, Scale-Out, XtremIO
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EMC World 2015 – Simplifying HyperConvergence – VxRack

Posted on May 4, 2015 by George Crump

EMC was one of the first companies to roll out a converged infrastructure when they created VCE, a turnkey solution that combined VMware, CISCO server/networking technology and EMC storage called “vBlock”. VCE and others like it significantly reduced the time it took…

Tagged with: Briefing Note, Converged, EMC, EMCworld2015, Hyper-converged, VSPEX
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Previewing EMC World 2015

Posted on May 1, 2015 by George Crump

EMC World has evolved into one of the largest storage events in the industry, taking second place only to VMworld. While the event clearly has an EMC bend to it (it is after all EMC World) there are plenty of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, EMC, EMC World, ViPR, XtremIO
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All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study

Posted on March 18, 2015 by George Crump

When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure, and their…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, EMC, Flash, HDD, I/O, Scale-Out, SSD, TCO, XtremIO
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Can All-Flash Eliminate IT Silos?

Posted on January 7, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent customer profile “All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study” Storage Switzerland did an extensive interview with CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments, systems processing, and data analytics. During that…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…

All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Executive Summary When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure,…