Posts Tagged EMC

Dell to buy 3PAR

Dell announced this morning that 3PAR has agreed to be acquired for $1.15Bn. (See previous 3PARpost from last Tuesday). The attraction for Dell is that it adds an enterprise class product to its portfolio, so fills a stragic aim. Dell will also undoubtedly be able to grow revenues quicker and faster than 3PAR on its [...]

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The 3rd Option by Axxana

Axxana briefed European analysts in June about its disaster recovery solution that captures all write operations even if the primary site suffers severe damage. The Disaster Recovery Dilemma Most IT professionals appreciate the philosophy of the ideal DR blueprint: by putting a significant distance between two or more interlinked IT sites. Should one site suffer [...]

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Is Autonomic Storage Inevitable?

EMC recently celebrated EMCWorld by announcing VPLEX, showing yet another vendor announcing a new layer to manage storage. If the traditional array was a purpose built computer dedicated to serve up storage, innovation soon demanded boxes that tinkered with this model. There have been many permutations of doing things differently, but with the same building [...]

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Unified Computing Platforms & Why We Need Them

HDS on April 19 announced its intention to develop and deliver an open, unified compute platform catering for servers, storage, network and applications. Other vendors have also articulated similar unified computing visions such as EMC/VMware/Cisco with Vblock and HP with Matrix. HDS at this early stage articulates a concept of a “Scalable, unified compute platform [...]

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CommVault plugs into the Cloud

CommVault, the data management software company, on February 1, 2010 announced its Farline addition to its Simpana suite. With Farline, customers of several Cloud providers will be able to plug-in to Simpana with its new storage destination. In fact CommVault extends data movement across on-premises as well as Cloud. Using native REST over HTTP, the [...]

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