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Introducing … the one, the only, the Unified Scale-Out Storage System … (from...
ONLY with Isilon can you create, manage and infinitely scale file-based workflows and unstructured data in a single file system, single volume. But as of today, that’s not all. I’m very excited to say...
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The Management Challenge
Virtualization is good. But, how are you going to manage this dynamic environment? Managing the virtual environment and its new infrastructure is critical to continuing the journey to the Cloud and to...
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Disaster Recovery is Still About Recovery Time
How does virtualization and Cloud impact disaster recovery? Well, in many ways, it doesn’t. Across town or across clouds, disaster recovery is still about recovery time. If you have responsibility for...
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Replication Made Easy
Replication made easy. Sounds good, but what does it mean? How can something as important as data replication in the data center be easy? Well, the need to do more with less has led to a demand for...
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Understanding Changing Roles in the Data Center
Who moved my cheese? In other words, what happened to my job!? Were you ever just getting comfortable in a job when it changed? Well, look out…it’s happening again. New IT service models are driving...
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Data Center Watch: Know Your Virtual Applications Are Protected
There is an interesting phenomenon going on in the data center today. As more and more mission-critical applications move into production virtual environments, backup administrators are spending a lot...
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Through the Looking-Glass
What if you had penetrating views into your physical and virtual environment? It’s not as farfetched as it may sound. The ability to look deep across your dynamic data center exists today. A few...
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Fast Cache and the Power Path
What’s the connection between server Flash and storage Flash? Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about server Flash here at EMC. The EMC implementation of PCIe server cache or EMC VFCache makes for a...
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Opt For The Data Express Lane With A LAN-Free Approach
Have you ever played the game SimCity? Once you get slightly beyond beginner stage and build up a city, the biggest challenge becomes traffic. It becomes very frustrating, very quickly with all of...
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Dealing With Virtual Machine Stall
How do you feel when you can’t take full advantage of an opportunity? Well, it is only human nature to feel disappointed. But, when it comes to business, it goes beyond mere personal disappointment...
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Filling The IT Skills Gap
Do you have the right IT skills for the job? In a previous post about understanding the changing roles in the data center, I discussed the need for a new mindset among data center personnel and some of...
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Faster Performance For Your VMware Environment
What if you could get faster performance out of your VMware environment? You’d do it. Stifling I/O bottlenecks, shrinking backup windows, and unplanned outages are commonplace concerns shared among...
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Transforming IT Is Not Complete Without Application Protection Services
Why is it that every cloud conversation seems to revolve around turning some function into a service? Well, the whole notion of cloud turns past concepts of IT as a back office function inside out and...
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EMC Extends Service Assurance With Watch4net
What if you could ensure the availability—and performance—of your virtual data center? With the acquisition of Montreal-based Watch4net Solutions, EMC provides another compelling option for getting...
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Carriers And Clouds
How do the tier-1 telecommunications carriers fit into cloud? The large telecommunication service providers or carriers might seem well-positioned to provide and benefit from the cloud computing model....
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The API-Driven Cloud
What makes more sense—open or standard APIs for cloud? Standard APIs have long been with us providing the means to access the basic protocols that power the Internet such as TCP, IP, and DNS. Without...
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The Software-Defined Data Center
What is the software-defined data center? The software-defined data center is cloud computing realized through intelligent software that abstracts hardware resources, pools it into aggregated capacity,...
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Enabling Data Protection As A Service
When does data protection become a money-maker? Data protection has long been thought of as somewhat of a necessary evil like life insurance. Throw money at the possibility that something will go wrong...
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Service Assurance In The Cloud
How do you provide service assurance in your virtualized data center or cloud? Read any blog, online article, or hard copy publication about the IT industry and you will likely see much about the...
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Cloud Computing Promises New Opportunities For IT Personnel
Where do you find the real value in the data center? As technologists, we get our thrills from the latest application release, add-on, or widget. It’s the nature of the beast. But, it’s not the new...
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Storage Challenges In The Software-Defined Data Center
What is the software-defined data center and what does it mean for storage? The software-defined data center is an approach to computing that takes a bunch of physical resources (i.e. compute, network,...
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Object Storage Gaining In Importance
What is object storage and why should anyone care? Object storage is a highly scalable architecture where data gets stored by unique IDs and attributes that describe the data. These IDs and attributes...
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Converged Infrastructure Foundation For Cloud-Based Services
How does converged infrastructure get you to a cloud environment? The IT industry is constantly evolving with visionaries leading the way for technology vendors to follow. Some innovations like storage...
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Object Storage In The Public Cloud
How are cloud technologies such as object storage transforming business? Enterprise IT and service providers are transforming how they do business by leveraging cloud architectures to deliver...
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Automating Infrastructure Management at EMC
What is storage-industry leader EMC doing to simplify and automate management in its data center? EMC IT is deploying EMC, VMware, and partner management automation technologies to simplify operations...
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Cloud Adoption Contributes to API Evolution
How is cloud computing contributing to changes in APIs? Application programming interfaces (APIs) provide the specifications used by software components to communicate with each other. What makes APIs...
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IT Transformation Leads to the Cloud Operations Center
How are you managing your new virtualized IT infrastructure? If you are a data center manager or administrator, the chances are pretty good that your IT organization is running a Network Operations...
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Object Storage In The Enterprise
How does object storage fit into the enterprise? Object storage is highly scalable architecture where data gets stored by unique IDs and attributes that describe the data. It is commonly used in public...
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Infrastructure-As-A-Service Goes Mainstream
Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), the fastest growing segment of the rapidly expanding cloud market, is going mainstream into the enterprise. Concurrently service providers, who were early adopters,...
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Extend Virtual Data Center Visibility With EMC Smarts
Have you ever wished you had a better way to fix a problem? Writing this post made me think about my meeting today with a data center manager who was looking for a better way to manage his pre-packaged...
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Five IT Storage Infrastructure Predictions For 2013
What is the future for storage infrastructure? It is not uncommon at this time of year to see predications on a variety of subjects for the coming year. While nobody has a crystal ball, knowledge and...
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Storage Resource Management Without Spreadsheets
When did Excel spreadsheets become storage management software? Excel spreadsheets were not intended for storage administrators tracking capacity utilization and needs, but targeted rather towards...
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Service Outage Hits Home for Cloud Provider
Are there blind spots in your service assurance approach? Netflix, a provider of online streaming media, made news over the holidays when customers experienced a service outage on Christmas Eve....
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Service Providers’ Role In Providing Higher Value Services
Service providers or carriers own the network infrastructure that supports the Internet, and are well-positioned for cloud computing. I addressed some of the opportunities and challenges service...
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Keeping The Lights On In An SAP Environment
How do you keep your SAP costs under control in the modern data center? As much as vendors like to think you spend all of your time planning architectural changes and your next purchase, the reality is...
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EMC Data Protection Advisor For As-A-Service Cloud Environments
What can you do to ensure data protection as you move to cloud? Services-based storage, infrastructure, and data protection trends and technologies are recurring topics in this blog. Awhile back I...
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How The Data Center Is Becoming Software-Defined
How pervasive is the concept of software-defined? In mid 2012 VMware CTO Steve Herrod and others began to articulate the concept of the software-defined data center. This concept was just as often...
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Data and the Path Best Traveled
You’ve spent a lot of time and money to deliver the best application performance and availability to the business. Your efforts have included investments in the latest technology regarding storage...
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All roads lead to … Hyperconvergence
There are a series of trends which have determined the overall direction of the IT industry over the past few decades. By understanding these trends and projecting their continued effect on the data...
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Survey findings show close alignment with Dell EMC strategy
Media Workflow Trends Survey- Industry Transformation is Underway Earlier in 2016, Dell EMC commissioned Gatepoint Research to conduct an extensive survey with Media Industry executives. The survey,...
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