EMC VSPEX
Multimedia Coverage from theCube and SiliconANGLE.tv
Original Content: On April 12, 2012, EMC announced VSPEX, a new flexible reference architecture comprised of EMC’s storage systems and next-generation backup products, along with virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware. SiliconANGLE's John Furrier and Wikibon's Dave Vellante were on hand to cover the announcement and provide real-time analysis live inside #theCUBE.
Full Coverage of EMC VSPEX Announcement
Watch full coverage of EMC’s VSPEX announcement, recorded live in San Francisco on April 12, 2012. Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier provide real-time commentary.
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Furrier and Vellante Kick-Off EMC VSPEX News and Analysis Coverage
Wikibon CEO and Chief Analyst Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier open up three plus hours of live coverage of the EMC VSPEX announcement live inside theCUBE from San Francisco.
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EMC’s Prasad Rampalli and Gregg Ambulos go live inside theCUBE to discuss the launch of EMC’s VSPEX Proven Architecture. Rampalli, SVP of Solutions Engineering, said his team had two main goals VSPEX: Ensuring interoperability throughout the stack and that it met specific customer use cases.
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EMC Chief Marketing Officer Jeremy Burton said VSPEX, EMC’s new converged infrastructure reference architecture, will help customers move quickly to the cloud by removing technical complexity. Speaking live inside theCUBE, Burton said VSPEX is a “pre-packaged private cloud building block”
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Cynthia Gallant, Vice President of Channel Strategy and Development at Citrix Systems, goes live inside theCUBE in San Francisco to discuss Citrix’s role in EMC’s new VSPEX Proven Architecture release. Gallant also discusses the trends driving desktop virtualization with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier.
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Wendy Bahr, Senior Vice President of Cisco System’s Global Channel Operation, discusses the benefits of converged infrastructures and addresses customers’ concerns about future price increases. Speaking live inside theCUBE, Bahr also discusses the role of partners in brining converged infrastructures to fruition.
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Jim Blakley, Intel Architecture Systems Integration Division Director at Intel, said the distributed client environment and the emergence of the data center as the new operating system. Blakley, speaking live inside theCUBE, also discusses Intel’s role in EMC VSPEX.
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Hatem Naguib, VP, WW Cisco, EMC and VCE Alliances at VMware, goes live inside theCUBE at the EMC VSPEX announcement event. He discusses the implications of converged infrastructure, how it is related to the continuing consumerization of IT, and says customers want to spend less time building their infrastructure and more time building applications.
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Two EMC channel partners – Dasher Vice President of Client Solutions Al Chien and Avnet Technology Solutions Vice President and General Manager Scott Look – go live inside theCUBE with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante to discuss the role of the channel in EMC’s VSPEX.
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Jason Nolet, Vice President, Data Center and Enterprise Networking at Brocade, goes live inside theCUBE to discuss the impact of server virtualization and converged infrastructure on networking. Speaking to Wikibon’s Dave Vellante, Nolet also discusses Brocade’s role in EMC’s new VSPEX offering and the role of channel partners like his firm.
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Peter Koliopoulos, Vice President of North American Marketing Enterprise Computing, and Barbara Spicek, Vice President of Global Channels at Brocade, go live inside theCUBE with SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier to discuss EMC VSPEX. The new reference architecture from EMC is being sold completely through channel partners such as Arrow and Brocade.
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Barbara Spicek, Vice President of Global Channels at Brocade, and SiliconANGLE Founder John Furrier go deep on the changing economics of the channel business as cloud computing, virtualization and converged infrastructure up-end traditional selling and buying behavior.
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Colin McNamara, Director, Data Center Practice at Nexus IS and Don Hoppock, Director, Vendor Management - Storage Solutions at Ingram Micro, join Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman live inside theCUBE to explore the channel implications of EMC’s VSPEX announcement.
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Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman joins Dave Vellante and John Furrier live inside theCUBE to provide some final thoughts on EMC’s VSPEX announcement and discuss the future of converged infrastructure in the enterprise.
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EMC VSPEX News and Analysis from The Wikibon Project and SiliconANGLE.com
- EMC VSPEX: A Window into the Transformation of the Technology Stack
- Live Broadcast from EMC VSPEX - Big Deal in Convergence Infrastructure @SiliconAngle.tv
- Avnet: Customers Who Want VSPEX Need Services
- Brocade: VSPEX Gives the Channel More Options
- Intel's Jim Blakely Looks to the Future of Private Cloud and IT Growth
- VSPEX is Channel Partner Friendly Says EMC CMO Jeremy Burton
- Prebuilt modular infrastructure is the future and its here now
- Renewed focus on the end user and simplification are ITs new frontiers
- EMC and IBM Legitimize Converged Infrastructure
- VMware's Hatem Naguib Talks VSPEX Converged Infrastructure
- Peter Koliopoulos & Barbara Spicek Talk VSPEX and Partner Relations
- EMC Should Leverage Cisco Connection to Boost its Channel Strategy
- VSPEX Provides Enterprise Level IT Stack Integration Validation with Flexibility to SMBs
- This Week in Cloud: VSPEX, HP and OpenStack
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