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EMC Acquires Archer, Integration Next
EMC Acquires Archer
The latest acquisition of Archer Technologies fills a gap in EMCs solution ecosystem with a best-in-class GRC software platform. With the Archer acquisition, and the development of an integration layer across EMC products, EMC creates the opportunity to speak more definitively about its capability to provide GRC solutions for core IT assets and operations and across the enterprise. The acquisition also provides a competitive play for EMC against other infrastructure technology providers including Oracle, with its GRC Manager, Microsoft with GRC Solution Accelerators and Sharepoint, CA, with its own GRC Manager, and others interested in their piece of the still-developing GRC marketplace.
Long Distance Live vMotion Storage Gems from VMworld 2009 Portend the Future for EMC?
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on October 29th, 2009
At VMworld 2009 in San Francisco, EMC, VMware, and Cisco presented a “super” session (TA-3105) entitled “Long Distance Live vMotion. Cisco published a white paper about it and Chad Sakac of EMC discussed it extensively in his blog entry. A video of this standing-room-only session is available at Blip TV link (had trouble playing link from Chad’s blog entry; doesn’t work with Firefox). VMware also reversed course and announced that it was now supporting this configuration.
Opportunity Knocks for EMC: Will Slootman Answer?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on September 24th, 2009
Integrate or sell more stuff?
From a backup perspective, the world is at an inflection point. Today’s requirements for growth, rapid data access and speedy recovery are outstripping the industry’s ability to solve backup challenges. Cobbling together stove-piped point solutions is costly to scale and the rapid adoption of virtualization is further stressing backup windows due to legacy processes designed for serial tape.
As the world moves to disk-based backup it needs an integrated solution. If it doesn’t get one, customers will find it increasingly difficult to justify appliance-based disk premiums and will turn to software-led approaches that scale independently of hardware. Or if software vendors (e.g. Microsoft and Veritas) add file system capabilities that perform de-duplication on primary storage, the lack of an integrated solution from hardware vendors will pressure margins.
V-Maxed out? Take a Deep Breath and Sharpen the Pencils.
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 15th, 2009
For weeks the brain trust at Wikibon and I have been dissecting EMC’s V-Max announcement and we still have a ways to go. Our technical guys want to go even deeper and we need to put together a good roadmap to help clients go from where they are today to this new vision of the virtual data center– if that’s where they really want to go.
Why Wouldn’t Customers Want to Migrate?
Getting the “Tweety” Bug @ SNW
Spring 2009 Storage Networking World is now history. As expected the crowds were down a bit with the vendor participation down significantly but according to the SNW folks, end user attendees were at 92% when compared to last year, not too bad considering current economic realities.
Eyes are now on SNW Fall to see how well the event can rebound, or not.
Hanging in the Tweet Suite @ SNW
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 9th, 2009
The Spring 2009 Storage Networking World ends today. It was a busy week for the Wikibon team as we were briefed by more than 25 technology companies and tweeted the live action to the Wikibon community. Bill Mottram, Dennis Martin and I gave presentations during the week, Dennis on SSD for Microsoft Apps, Bill on optimizing energy and efficiency and me with Rich Avila on how Virtualization Energizes Cal State U East Bay.
Why aren’t more VMware storage arrays virtualized?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on March 18th, 2009
Yesterday, the Wikibon community heard from Cal State U East Bay’s Rich Avila. He, like other guests on Wikibon, including BT’s Michael Crader, have cited the benefits of combining server and storage virtualization. Yet numerous customers we speak with don’t virtualize storage arrays under VMware.
Industry data from IDC and Forrester over the past few years clearly shows EMC dominates in virtualized server environments as the backend storage platform of choice. The data ranges from 40% to close to 50% market share. Clearly these EMC arrays are not sitting behind Invista so one can only assume the capacity of these arrays is not virtualized. Folks like 3PAR of course would say that this is a missed opportunity– once you try a fully virtualized platform under VMware you’ll see the advantages and won’t go back.
VMware as Software Mainframe
Posted by David Floyer in Wikibon on March 10th, 2009
President and CEO Paul Maritz has been describing vSphere as a “software mainframe”, with 2,000 people working on it. Paul says the analogy is especially useful in describing vSphere to people over 45.
Guilty as charged. It is a good analogy. With that analogy come good things and constraints. The good things are a system that never needs to be restarted (re-IPLed for the over 45). It is fully virtualized. It is never hacked. You can move every type of workloads round a synchronous fibre fabric dynamically. It takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’.
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