Control
Open Source Is The Future Of EMC Software
Technologies are not the only things that pollinate across the HPC, hyperscale, cloud, and enterprise sectors of the IT economy. …
EMC
Compute
Dell And EMC Have More HPC Presence Than You (Or They) Think
The announced acquisition of enterprise storage giant EMC by server and PC maker Dell has fueled the pontifications of pundits across the tech industry, leaving almost no area unanalyzed. …
Cloud
With EMC And VMware, Dell Must Start Building A Platform
Now that the dust is starting to settle after Dell’s blockbuster $67 billion deal to acquire storage behemoth EMC and, by extension, its controlling interest in server virtualization juggernaut VMware, it is time to start thinking about what this means for the datacenters of the world. …
Compute
Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
Enterprise
Forging Server SAN Hybrids To Fit The Enterprise
The three things that large enterprises want out of hyperconverged storage, and that EMC will be bringing to bear with its ScaleIO server-SAN hybrid, are scalability, performance, and ease of consumption. …
HPC
EMC Tracks Trickle Down Effect from the Exascale Bubble
For companies that make investments in high performance computing technology, the financial math can be a tricky game. …
Cloud
EMC Grabs A Bigger Piece Of The Cloud
Every new generation of systems architecture spawns its own set of management tools to automate the use of that technology and to deal with specific pain points in the architecture. …
HPC
Still Shrouded in Stealth, DSSD Proves Early Performance at Scale
Around this time last year, EMC announced the acquisition of DSSD, a storage acceleration startup founded by a slew of ex-Sun leads, including Andy Bechtolsheim (one of the original Sun founders), Jeff Bonwick (co-creator of Sun’s ZFS file system) and led by Bill Moore as CEO (former head of storage at Sun). …
Compute
Engineered Systems Stall, Modular Systems Still Growing
Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …