This news is so fresh you would leave footprints if you step in it, but here’s a collection of my favorite links and coverage so far. I’ll be updating this list throughout the next few days:

• Let’s start with independents:
  • My first post on the topic can be found over at Gestalt IT: EMC Symmetrix V-Max Is Neither Monolithic Nor Midrange
  • Chris Evans was first but promises more than Enterprise Computing: EMC Announced Next Generation V-Max Architecture
  • Storagebod supposes that there will be No DMX5
  • Duncan Epping is watching from a server virtualization perspective: EMC announced the Symmetrix V-Max!
  • Jerome Wendt: EMC Symmetrix V-Max – It’s About Time
• And the press:
  • Beth Pariseau is always smart, as her SearchStorage piece shows: EMC clusters Symmetrix high-end disk arrays
  • And Beth on StorageSoup: EMC launches Symmetrix V-Max, may add spin-down
  • Chris Mellor is dead on in his piece for The Register, Symmetrix and the death of monolithic arrays
  • Lucas Mearian of Computerworld focused his piece on the private cloud: EMC introduces x86-based Symmetrix array for cloud storage
  • Dave Raffo at StorageSoup: EMC V-Max: V stands for bigger
  • Paul Travis at Byte and Switch: EMC Clusters New Storage Systems for Virtual Data Centers
  • And Dave Simpson brings up the rear on his personal blog, but still no word from InfoStor: EMC V-Max: Locked (in) and loaded
• EMC’s bloggers are first out of the gate:
  • Barry Burke has typically prolific and detailed coverage: 
  • • 1.055: symmetrix v-max – a revolutionary evolution
    • 1.056: inside the virtual matrix architecture (my favorite)
    • 1.057: symmetrix v-max – scale up, scale out, scale away!
    • 1.058: v-max does what hi-star can’t?
    • 1.059: fully automated storage tiering (fast)
  • Chuck Hollis’ Symmetrix V-Max: Storage Architecture Redefined is a solid overview
  • Chad Sakac is always good, and his EMC’s VMware Storage Strategy – The 3rd Shoe Drops is a must-read on V-Max, though I’m still left wondering about EMC’s VMware strategy!
  • Mark Twomey’s there with three posts and counting:
    • V-Max: The Scale Out Symmetrix
    • VMax: Auto-provisioning Groups
    • V-Max: SRDF Evolves
  • Dick Sullivan promises You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet
  • Steve Todd:
    • V-Max Quality
    • Managing V-Max at Scale
  • Len Devanna comments on the Social Launch
• The opposition is moving fast, too!
  • Marc Farley preempted the announcement with a hilarious must-watch video, EMC insider interview is a fake, and an expose on What’s a tigon anyway?
  • Val Bercovici from NetApp observes that the world might have moved past the need for a Symmetrix, noting “Frames are so 90’s”
  • Hu Yoshida focuses on what the V-Max is not: A storage virtualization platform. Don’t Confuse Symmetrix V-Max with Storage Virtualization
  • Claus Mikkelsen of HDS was also predictably underwhelmed, asking why EMC introduced this roadmap now? EMC – Catching Up With the Past
  • Tony Asaro blogs for HDS about 10 Questions on V-Max

That’s the news that’s fit to print so far! Stick with this post and Gestalt IT’s continuing coverage of the V-Max!

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