If you happen to read the (interesting and entertaining) blog posts both NetApp and EMC produce, or follow @chuckhollis and @Vaughn_Stewart, you might already have noticed their discussion about data deduplication and the merits of each others storage arrays. If not, keep reading!
EMC and VMware have expanded their business and technology alliance; EMC is now a fully authorized reseller of VMware vCenter AppSpeed. AppSpeed will be offered as part of EMC’s Ionix portfolio, expanding the management capabilities for their customers physical and virtual [...]
One of EMC’s two founders, Richard Egan, died last night at the age of 73. In an e-mailed statement, his family said that Mr. Egan was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer in May. Egan founded EMC thirty years ago this week, retiring as Chairman Emeritus in 2001.
With VMworld starting next week, there’s lots of virtualization-related storage news. Here’s a quick summary of the main items for today:
During last week’s earnings call, EMC shared some more information about their FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) feature. This new feature was announced earlier this year, but this is the first time I’ve seen an actual timeframe being specified since their first press release about the new Symmetrix V-Max arrays.
Just over a month after Apple officially announced the end of the PowerPC era, EMC has pushed out an updated version of its Retrospect backup software that adds PowerPC support. From the press release:
“Adding support for PowerPC Macs was a critical step towards providing small and mid-sized businesses the best backup and recovery product for [...]
The Register had just published a nice article by Chris Mellor, in which he argues that lots of storage startups are aiming for a market that simply doesn’t exist or is a lot smaller than they might think:
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