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Application Workloads and Metadata, Part 2
I started writing about application workloads and innovation by using a simple diagram: Applications want to store and retrieve data. In the pre-disk array era, the binding between an application...
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HP Proliant MicroServer G8 – A Decent Home Lab Server?
There is a new HP Proliant MicroServer on the scene, and this time it is Intel based with more CPU clout and a few minor changes, some good and some not so much. HP have aimed this new G8 MicroServer...
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Security vs. Compliance
As a security evangelist, I talk security… but let me be clearer, I don’t talk compliance. Ok, so maybe I talk about compliance as well but one thing that I always stress is that security and...
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Channel Matters: EMC's Move to "Next Marketing"
Listen in as Jennifer St.Hill, Vice President of Americas Field and Partner Marketing discusses major announcements in EMC Partner Marketing including the new EMC Business Partner brand, increased...
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Who’s the conductor of your backups?
I am fortunate to have two musical children who are both very talented at their respective instruments. When they play or practice alone they are able to control the tempo and volume of the piece...
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Student Vision: The Importance of Engaging Students Early
Stephen Todd, EMC Fellow and VP of Strategy and Innovation In late June I participated in EMC’s second annual University Day, which deepens the collaboration between EMC and its academic partners....
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Infrastructure-Based Workloads
In previous posts I have described how application workloads drove innovation in the areas of block (SAN), file (NAS), and object(CAS) storage systems. I discussed the evolution of these systems in...
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Big Data Management – The Lab and the Factory
Big Data management requires availability of at least two very distinct data environments, and possibly organizational structures, for the different participants. A few months ago I saw a tweet that...
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In Praise Of IT Sales Reps
They go by many names: account manager, sales representative, etc. In our world of enterprise IT, they're an essential part of the chain that delivers value from producers to consumers. But they get...
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The EMC Durham Data Center Migration: Lessons in Solidifying Configuration...
By Stephen Doherty — Principal IT Project Manager This is the third part in a series on EMC’s new Durham Cloud Data Center by Stephen. Click here to read part two. Many organizations these days are...
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A Change In Role
I enjoy watching the great people in our community evolve into to new roles and new responsibilities. Every day, there's someone on Twitter announcing their latest change, with plenty of well-wishing...
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EMC VNX Simulator (VSA)–How to download the latest version
How to download the latest version of the EMC VNX Simulator (VSA): Here’s a quick guide that shows you how to get hold of and download the latest EMC VNX Simulator (VSA). For those of you who are not...
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Syncplicity File and Share – The Solution against Email Inundation
We all know it: Email is king and here to stay. As the lifeblood of today’s business environment, it’s the standard for communication as enterprises increasingly engage in real-time sharing of...
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Three Applications in the Data Center
In my last post I described how a new form of application workload began gaining steam last decade: infrastructure-based applications. The complexity of these applications caused a tremendous surge of...
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Now Hiring Advanced Software Division PreSales SE
One of the really cool things about working at EMC is there is ALWAYS room for “aggressive expansion” In this case, my division is currently looking for Software Defined Specialist/Advanced...
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EMC Backup and Archive – User Groups
What better way to hear what our partners and customers have to say about our “Data Protection” products than to get out onto the streets and visit over 25 cities in EMEA. That’s the task for us over...
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Removing Deployment Friction With Push-To-Deploy
At work we use CloudFoundry as our PaaS, but I also like to keep informed about what other platforms do. Google AppEngine Introduces Push-To-Deploy Google AppEngine recently added an interesting...
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Going To VMworld? Interested in Software-Defined Storage?
VMworld is right around the corner, and I know many of you are going -- or at least *wish* you were going! VMworld has evolved into one of the premier industry events for us infrastructure types --...
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Old Complexity + New Complexity = Progress?
Martin Glassborow posted a thought provoking piece on his blog a couple weeks back talking about how the intelligence native to infrastructure seems to be working it’s way up from the individual...
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Backup! And Watch These New Networker Microsoft Demos
Networker has added some great functionality in the Microsoft backup space recently, including a lot of great integration with SQL, Exchange, and Hyper-V. The videos below are meant to show you the...
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