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VMAX Made Easy

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Colm Keegan

We concluded our full day of briefings at EMC by meeting with the VMAX product team. The VMAX product family represents EMC’s top of the line, enterprise class storage solution. While there are some similarities between the midrange VNX and…

Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, EMCbreifingDay, IOPS, VMAX, VNX, XtremIO
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EMC Briefing Day – NetWorker 8

Posted on December 6, 2013 by George Crump

Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…

Tagged with: Backup, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCbreifingDay, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, Virtual Tape Library, VMware
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Avamar’s Virtualization Journey Continues

Posted on December 6, 2013 by Colm Keegan

As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…

Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Data deduplication, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX
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EMC’s Remedy to the Accidental Backup Architecture

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Colm Keegan

As we hit the mid-point of our EMC briefing day, we sat down with the folks from EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division. The first item of discussion was the Data Domain product family. As we have covered in recent…

Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Oracle, Oracle Database, RMAN, VMware
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EMC ViPR Gets Defined

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

The next meeting at our EMC Briefing Day was with the Advanced Software Division. They are responsible for their software defined storage (SDS) solution – ViPR. We have written about ViPR extensively in the past but now that the product…

Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, EMCbreifingDay, ScaleIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, ViPR
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EMC’s VNX Swiss Army Knife Gets Sharper

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

Next up at Storage Switzerland’s EMC Briefing Day was the Midrange part of EMC’s Enterprise & Midrange Storage Division, also known as the VNX family; and of course we are going to talk about the VNX2. The EMC VNX2 is…

Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, VNX
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EMC Briefing Day – EMC Converges The Infrastructure With ScaleIO

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

Yesterday, Storage Switzerland was at EMC for a day full of briefings from various groups within EMC. First up on the agenda within the Emerging Technology Division was ScaleIO, a company that EMC acquired earlier this year. ScaleIO allows EMC…