It has been nearly a year since Cisco shook up the IT infrastructure world with their unified computing system (UCS) server line. Predictably, although the introduction set the world buzzing, customer uptake has been somewhat slower. Although evaluations are reported to be widespread, production use … [Read more...]
EMC’s Unified Platform and Storage Tiering
September 24, 2009 by 3 Comments
At EMC World 2009, one thing we heard over and over was the investment EMC was making into software products. Today, out of the core group of 7000 engineers EMC has in the team, 20% are hardware engineers while all of the rest are software engineers. EMC’s Unified Hardware Approach EMC’s focus … [Read more...]
EMC Changes the Rules with Atmos Compute
August 19, 2009 by 5 Comments
Update: As of October EMC has officially revealed the Atmos Online Compute Service, and it is as we suggested back in August. EMC is a storage company, right? Not anymore! Under Joe Tucci, the disk giant from Hopkinton has been diversifying rapidly, with acquisitions like VMware, Documentum, RSA, … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: When Does It Get FAST and Virtual?
May 8, 2009 by 4 Comments
EMC caused a major stir on April 14 as they announced the next-generation Symmetrix enterprise storage array, the V-Max. Since that time, many of the features have been discussed and dissected on various blogs at the same time as EMC moves forward with sales of the new system. But one question … [Read more...]
Is Licensing Turning vSphere Into Vista?
April 27, 2009 by 2 Comments
Although the technical details of VMware's version 4 product (dubbed the vSphere family) were known ahead of time, the product's licensing model came as a surprise. Rather than go with the "base product + options" approach used by many software products, VMware decided on a flat tiered pricing … [Read more...]
Governance And Peaks In The Cloud
March 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
As large organizations begin to look towards cloud computing, many find themselves questioning the suitability of the infrastructure for their business needs. As consumer-focused services like Carbonite lose data and startup-focused systems like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure suffer outages, the … [Read more...]
Planning for Virtual Infrastructure: Avoid the Pitfalls
March 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Today, many companies are considering a compete migration from a physical to a virtual infrastructure. Based on the promises of cost savings, administrative efficiencies, and improved resource utilization, virtualization is seen as the technology that makes it possible to do more with less. However, … [Read more...]