EMC completely took over April 14 to launch their next-generation Symmetrix enterprise storage system. Sporting their new V-Max architecture, the Symmetrix (let's just call it DMX-5, ok?) is a scale-out system based on standard components wrapped together into a multiprocessing powerhouse. This news is so fresh you would leave footprints if you step in it, but here's a … [Read more...] about Tracking EMC’s Symmetrix V-Max Launch
Steve Todd
EMC Atmos Versus VMware VDC-OS: Will The Real Cloud Strategy Please Stand Up?
As I guessed on Friday, EMC has officially announced their Maui Atmos software layer today, calling it the "industry's first COS (cloud-optimized storage) offering", "a new era for IT", and "a new category of storage." So the new era for IT is a cloud with globally-distributed object stores with policy management? Great! But I thought the new era for IT was a cloud with … [Read more...] about EMC Atmos Versus VMware VDC-OS: Will The Real Cloud Strategy Please Stand Up?