Tag Archives: EMC

Real-time data analytics from customer interactions

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Ray

At a recent EMC product launch in New York, there was a customer question and answer session for industry analysts with four of EMC’s leading edge customers. One customer, Marco Pacelli, was the CEO of ClickFox, a company providing real-time data … Continue reading →

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EMC Data Domain products enter the archive market

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Ray

In another assault on the tape market, EMC announced today a new Data Domain 860 Archiver appliance. This new system supports both short-term and long-term retention of backup data. This attacks one of the last bastions of significant tape use … Continue reading →

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Data compression lives on

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ray

Last week NetApp announced the availability of data compression on many of their unified storage platforms, which includes block and file storage.  Earlier this year EMC announced data compression for LUNs on CLARiion and Celerra.  I must commend both of … Continue reading →

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EMC to buy Isilon Systems

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Ray

I understand the rationale behind EMC’s purchase of Isilon scale out NAS technology for big data applications.  More and more data is being created every day and most of that unstructured.  How can one begin to support multiple PBs of … Continue reading →

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Why Bus-Tech, why now – Mainframe/System z data growth

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, EMC announced the purchase of Bus-Tech, their partner in mainframe or System z attachment for the Disk Library Mainframe (DLm) product line. The success of open systems mainframe attach products based on Bus-Tech or competitive technology is subject to some debate … Continue reading →

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EMC NetWorker 7.6 SP1 surfaces

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Ray

This week EMC releases NetWorker 7.6 SP1 with new Boost support for Data Domain (DD) appliances which allows NetWorker’s storage node (media server) and the DD appliance to jointly work on providing deduplication services.  Earlier this year EMC DD announced the … Continue reading →

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Hitachi’s VSP vs. VMAX

Posted on September 27, 2010 by Ray

Today’s announcement of Hitachi’s VSP brings another round to the competition between EMC and Hitachi/HDS in the enterprise. VSP’s recent introduction which is GA and orderable today, takes the rivalry to a whole new level. I was on SiliconANGLE‘s live TV … Continue reading →

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Better storage through hardware

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Ray

Chuck Hollis from EMC wrote a post last week on Storage is software about how hardware parts are becoming commoditized and so highly functional that future storage differentiation will only come from software.  I commented that hardware differentiation is also becoming … Continue reading →

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