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So, What Is A Backup?
February 15, 2011 12:00 PM
Last week EMC blogger Chuck Hollis started a bit of a firestorm when he questioned the marketing position some vendors are taking that local snapshots make traditional backups unnecessary. As we could expect, a series of EMC haters, employees of other vendors and industry analysts jumped in to add fuel to the fire. I think Hollis did ask a valid question: As technologies advance, what is a backup?EMC Sees Big Opportunity In Big Data
February 14, 2011 04:49 PM
According to an EMC-sponsored IDC report, the amount of data amassed by consumers and businesses is expected to increase by 44 times in this decade. A lot of that information will be what many, including EMC, call big data. Obviously, big data requires storage and other products and services that the company provides, so it should come as no surprise that, in its recent blizzard of announcements, EMC targeted big data as one of its key markets. Let's try to understand big data and what it means, and then briefly illustrate how EMC is addressing the big data market through its recent acquisitions of Isilon and Greenplum.Could EMC Become The Amdahl of Cloud Storage?
February 11, 2011 05:59 PM
There is no doubt that EMC has shipped some Atmos storage since its introduction. Yes, EMC has Atmos. And the company claims that Atmos is specifically designed for the cloud. However, I believe that there are fundamental issues with the way EMC sells Atmos to customers. First of all, if Atmos is cloud storage, then it should be sold on a usage basis. Customers should be charged only for what they use--not for petabytes of capacity up front. After all, isn't that the whole premise of cloud? Lowering your capital expenditures and shifting to a utility model? It makes me wonder if EMC is slowly becoming the Amdahl of Cloud Storage.EMC Greenplum Offers Free Open Source Tool For Building Database Apps
February 02, 2011 01:15 PM
The Greenplum division of storage vendor EMC is offering a Free Community License version of its EMC Greenplum Database software, which allows software developers to build new applications to deal with the explosion of so-called "big data" that businesses and other enterprises have to try to manage. The community license is based on code from Greenplum's massive parallel processing (MPP) database product, and includes the open-source MADlib library of analytic algorithms and Alpine Miner, a data mining modeling tool.Data Center Consolidation Sparks Converged Infrastructure Deployment
January 27, 2011 01:34 PM
SIRVA, an international relocation and moving solutions provider, determined that acquisitions are a good way to grow a business. However, one repercussion from the strategy was inefficiency: Duplicate business functions were performed in various offices scattered across the United States. In streamlining its IT infrastructure, the corporation found itself at the forefront of the movement to consolidate data center products, a position that, to date, has paid dividends for the corporation.EMC Takes The Offensive In The Storage Wars
January 25, 2011 10:08 AM
With its January blizzard of announcements, EMC has launched an across-the-board offensive. By doing so, the company is broadening its horizons as a wide spectrum information infrastructure company. That does not mean it has neglected its storage roots--far from it. Announcements at both the enterprise-class and midrange storage system levels have opened new fronts for EMC to contend against competitors.EMC Hosts A 'Record-Breaking' Event
January 20, 2011 10:00 AM
EMC has spent the first couple of weeks of 2011 building what it hoped was excitement for the "Record Breaking Event" here in New York on Tuesday. After receiving a cardboard broken record via FedEx, and innumerable e-mails, I braved the freezing rain to attend the dog and pony show. Some of the announcements indicate that EMC gets that it has to stop promoting the storage priesthood and make its systems more accessible.EMC 'Doubles Down' On Core Franchise
January 18, 2011 03:41 PM
In what EMC calls the biggest product launch in its--or the storage industry's--history, the company has announced 41 new products, ranging from SMB storage to enterprise backup and archiving. Today's announcements included EMC's first significant foray into the SMB market and a complete refresh of its midrange Clariion storage area network (SAN) and Celerra network-attached storage (NAS) systems.EMC Addresses Surging Backup Demands
January 18, 2011 09:43 AM
EMC's latest storage additions to its backup lineup include a refresh of its top-end Data Domain 800 family, a new high-end deduplication solution, and what EMC calls the industry's first long-term retention system for backup and archive. Unveiled on Tuesday, the new systems are part of a series of announcements from the storage powerhouse.Nirvanix Gains Increased Market Traction With Triad Of Cloud Solutions
January 14, 2011 01:18 PM
I blogged about Nirvanix here on Network Computing back in November, and opined that the time to execute with cloud offerings is now. I have been following Nirvanix closely since then, and speaking candidly with its customers. It is clear that the company is executing well, providing substantial value to its existing customers, gaining new customers and fine-tuning offerings in order to take the competition head on. Nirvanix has its sights set on the high end of the competitive spectrum. The company is making gains in market traction and turning prospects away from stalwarts like EMC and IBM.« Previous Page | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next Page »
