Tag Archives: EMCWorld

VMware’s CEO at EMCWorld

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ray

At EMCWorld earlier this week, Paul Maritz CEO of VMware took center stage and talked about what they were doing to help customers in their journey to the cloud. From his perspective, there seems to be 3 phases to the journey … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 3 …

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Ray

Sometime this week EMC announced a new generation of Isilon NearLine storage which now includes HGST 3TB SATA disk drives.  With the new capacity the multi-node (144) Isilon cluster using the 108NL nodes can support 15PB of file data in … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 2

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Ray

Day 2 saw releases for new VMAX  and VPLEX capabilities hinted at yesterday in Joe’s keynote. Namely, VMAX announcements VMAX now supports Native FCoE with 10GbE support now VMAX supports directly FCoE, 10GbE iSCSI and SRDF Enhanced Federated Live Migration … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld news Day1 1st half

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Ray

EMC announced today a couple of new twists on the flash/SSD storage end of the product spectrum.  Specifically, They now support all flash/no-disk storage systems. Apparently they have been getting requests to eliminate disk storage altogether. Probably government IT but … Continue reading →

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FAST, Cache & Boost – Day2@EMCWorld 2010

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Ray

Well EMCWorld 2010′s a wrap for me.  Some interesting Day 2 announcements included: Advanced FAST and FAST cache for CLARiiON were announced which pertain to how SSD storage is used in the subsystem. Advanced FAST provides for sub-lun storage tiering between … Continue reading →

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VPLEX surfaces at EMCWorld

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Ray

At EMCWorld today Pat Gelsinger  had a pair of VPLEXes flanking him on stage and actively moving VMs from “Boston” to “Hopkinton” data centers.  They showed a demo of moving a bunch of VMs from one to the other with … Continue reading →

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