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EMC Starts Bidding War for Data Domain
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on June 1st, 2009
EMC earlier this afternoon put out an offer for $30 a share for Data Domain, $5 more than NetApp’s bid. In after hours trading, Data Domain’s stock is up over $30 indicating that the street believes NetApp will be forced to match. NetApp stock is also up in after hours trading so somehow the street thinks a bidding war is good for NetApp. Sometimes things aren’t so logical on Wall Street– this won’t likely hold.
Here’s the EMC release.
Details on EMC’s V-Max Virtual LUN Technology Enhancements
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on April 17th, 2009
Virtual LUN Technology
The Symmetrix V-Max storage array enhances the Virtual LUN technology offered by DMX storage arrays. The Virtual LUN technology on the V-Max array can now perform transparent, nondisruptive data mobility between storage tiers for standard Symmetrix devices. This technology is based on the Enginuity Virtual RAID Architecture and requires Enginuity code level 5874. Virtual LUN migration provides users the ability to move data between high-performance drives and high capacity drives. This new functionality is used to either change RAID protection types, move between physical disk groups, or both. It supports the migration of regular devices or meta-volumes, and can utilize configured or unconfigured disk space as the target. When the migration is performed to configured space, the target of the invocation cannot be assigned to a host. Migration is facilitated by the creation and movement of Symmetrix devices. Upon completion of the migration, the original devices are deleted and the space is freed.
Does EMC’s New Symmetrix V-Max Deserve a “V”?
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on April 16th, 2009
CEO Joe Tucci touts V-Max as haVing been “purpose built for Virtual datacenters”, but how does it differ from Symmetrix DMX with respect to Virtualization?
The word “Virtual” means to make something appear to be real when it is not such has a reflection in a mirror. In the data storage world, Virtualization makes the location and size of LUNs/blocks/files appear to the serVer to be constant when they are not.
Let’s start with the DMX’s Virtualization features:
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RAID – 1st layer of Virtualization aboVe a JBOD
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Virtual/Thin proVisioning
Some high level highlights of today’s Symmetrix V-Max announcement.
EMC announced their latest 3rd generation Symmetrix architecture today the labeled the Virtual Matrix Architecture. The announcement was kicked off by Tucci who positioned the event as both the introduction of a new architecture as well and the introduction of the first V-Max product. Donatelli then proceeded to give a bit more detail. The following are the highlights I captured during his presentation.
- Symmetrix was introduced 18 years ago, this is the 3rd generation architecture.
- The intelligence and the compute resources are contained in a module called the Symmetrix V-Max Engine. Multiple engines can be matrix together with capacity resources in a scale-out architecture.
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