When Dell acquired EMC in its massive $60 billon-plus deal last year, it boasted that Dell was inheriting a boatload of new technologies that would help propel forward its capabilities and ambitions with larger enterprises. …
It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal. …
Storage giant EMC, soon to be part of the Dell Technologies conglomerate, declared that this would be the year of all flash for the company when it launched its DSSD D5 arrays back in February. …
This being leap year day, storage juggernaut EMC is having fun with puns about quantum leaps and frogs as it launches its much-anticipated DSSD all-flash arrays aimed at extreme I/O performance. …
If you want to know just how far the performance of an all-flash array can be pushed, you need look no further than the DSSD D5 array that, after years of development and mystery, is being launched by storage juggernaut EMC today. …
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …
There are a lot of ways to build or buy hyperconverged server-storage hybrids, and EMC is working with sister company VMware to bring yet another way to market that could, in the end, be the preferred way for many enterprise customers. …
If disk drives were not so inexpensive and capacious, companies would have stopped using them for persistent storage as soon as flash drives became reliable enough for an enterprise duty cycle. …
Rumors of the death of the monolithic parallel file system are not exaggerated. …
The way that systems are being built is changing, and the way that the winners and losers are tracked as they peddle their wares into the datacenter has to change to reflect that. …
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