If thats the case, then how will they shape it in the near future? The executives were short on details beyond identifying information lifecycle management (ILM), iSCSI, and Serial ATA disks as technologies they hope to exploit. And that puts them in the same big boat as the rest of the networking storage world.
But Dell and EMC could help steer that ship. A report written by Kevin Hunt, an analyst with Thomas Weisel Partners, identifies EMC as a leader in the ILM space because of its success with ATA storage in Clariion SAN arrays and Centera content addressed storage systems.
"We believe that EMC has successfully delivered a clear ILM message and strategy for implementation," Hunt writes. "While the pieces of managing this [ILM] process are still coming together, we believe that EMC has taken the lead. Customers are using ATA-based storage more than we had initially anticipated."
EMC and Dell have benefited from using Serial ATA storage in the low-end Clariion CX200 SAN array as companies look to implement disk-to-disk nearline storage.
"I think youll see more from us in this area," Hollis says.
Bob Friday, Chief AI Officer for Juniper Networks, explains how the advanced technology is transforming operations.
Contact center leaders from 8x8, Awaken Intelligence, and 360insight discuss the importance of agent experience.
AI may force enterprises to rewire parts of their data centers so they are fully optimized to run such workloads. The question is do you use Ethernet or InfiniBand?
