Market positioning Acadia, EMC, Cisco and the whole vBlock Idea

So a while back, Cisco, VMWare and EMC announced that they are forming a partnership to co-operatively sell and support products. This joint venture is named Acadia and is made up of a specifically screened and selected sales people and engineers from each company. What is particularly notable is … [Read more...]

EMC Symmetrix: Bin File

EMC Symmetrix BIN file, largely an unknown topic in the storage industry and practically there is no available information related to it. This post is just an attempt to shed some light as to what a BIN file is, how it works, what’s in it and why is it essential with the Enginuity code. Some EMC … [Read more...]

Enhancements to EMC Symmetrix V-Max Systems coming!!

Enhancements to EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems is possibly around the corner (FY09 Q4). FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) is due this quarter and will be one of the most awaited software release in the enterprise storage space by EMC. Bundled together with FAST, possibly a new microcode … [Read more...]

EMC AX4 Platform

On a few reader request, here is a blog post on EMC AX4 technology. Previously in one of the post on StorageNerve, I had explained the evolution of the EMC Clariion Technology including the AX products and the flare code that is associated with the success of this platform, to read the blog … [Read more...]