On the Road to Delivering IT-as-a-Service
What if you could deliver IT-as-a-Service? Last time around, I discussed the challenge facing data center managers when it comes to responding to internal customers and standing up new services in...
View ArticleApplications Have Gone Mobile
“Elvis has left the building.” It was a popular phrase to disperse crowds after Elvis Presley concerts and has found its way into colloquial American speech. Fact was Elvis had moved on to the next...
View ArticleManaging the Exploding Growth in Storage
Is your storage growth getting unmanageable? In a global neighborhood that just hit 7 billion at last count, our planet is experiencing a population explosion. Similarly, our IT industry is...
View ArticleThrough 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...
View Article5 Steps to Improving Your IT Infrastructure Compliance Strategy
Want to keep your sanity—and your job? Of course, you do. But, managing your IT infrastructure holistically is not an easy task! Ensuring everything is always under control and meets regulatory...
View ArticleFast 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...
View ArticleDealing 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...
View ArticleWill Software Keep Up With You And Your Cloud
What have your vendors done to get you to converged infrastructure management and the cloud? Not too long ago the industry was abuzz about this new thing called cloud. While the chatter remains high, a...
View ArticleFaster 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...
View ArticleOperations Management in Converged Infrastructure
How do you manage operations in converged infrastructure? There is a great deal of discussion about converged infrastructures and reference architectures and which vendors you should consider based on...
View Article3 Not So Obvious Reasons To Go To EMC World
What about EMC World? It’s EMC’s biggest event of the year. And, whether you attend in person or not, you’ll hear about new technologies and new products next week in Las Vegas, in the press, and on...
View ArticleTransforming IT Application Protection Services with EMC AppSync
What if you could provide application protection with your end-user services? Cloud computing services conversations seem to focus on providing end-users with business processes and the compute,...
View ArticleWhat Happens In Las Vegas Goes On The Internet
Did you see any of the Hangover movies? Well, EMC World is not like either of those movies. But, we do have pictures—and a video! Unlike our heroes in Hangover, I know where I’ve been. It’s hard to...
View ArticleEMC 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...
View ArticleGet To Decisions Quickly With EMC DataBridge
Are you a spreadsheet engineer or a mashup builder? These monikers are colorful terms for sure. But, they are also descriptive of the choices you will soon have for constructing meaningful views into...
View ArticleVirtualizing Applications Benefit From EMC AppSync For Protection
What if you could take an SLA-driven approach to protecting your virtualized applications? Well, for starters, you would be able to provide the right level of protection to your applications. Remember,...
View ArticleCloud Architectures Are Not New
Well, if cloud architectures are not new, exactly how old are they? The title almost begs the question. It may be the latest, hottest buzzword, but architecturally, the cloud is more than 20 years old....
View ArticleAddressing Multiple Storage Challenges In The Cloud
Can you get the most out of your data storage in your cloud? Chances are you have challenges delivering storage-as-service regardless of the make-up of your data center. Most likely these challenges...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleStorage 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,...
View ArticleObject 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...
View ArticleConverged 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...
View ArticleAutomating 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...
View ArticleInfrastructure-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,...
View ArticleExtend 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...
View ArticleFive 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...
View ArticleStorage 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...
View ArticlePlatform-As-A-Service For The Enterprise
Is platform-as-a-service (PaaS) relevant to the enterprise? Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offers small organizations compute, network, and storage resources on par with the IT capabilities...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleSupporting Multiple Cloud Stacks in the Software-defined Data Center
When we talk about the software-defined data center, we often think of delivering our vision through the use of a single cloud stack or cloud automation platform. The use of a single stack helps to be...
View ArticleVMware and ViPR: Better Together
I want to take a moment to demonstrate how EMC ViPR + VMware work together to bring storage automation to VMware environments today. By utilizing ViPR with VMware, a company’s Storage Administrators...
View ArticleServices Unavailable, Unattainable, or Just Unidentified?
Software-defined Storage (SDS) is coming to a data center near you! By the time you read this, it’s already happening. EMC is using innovative software and hardware offerings such asViPR, Isilon, Atmos...
View ArticleService Assurance Suite 9.3 GA Accelerates SDN with VMware NSX
EMC Service Assurance Suite became generally available on June 24, 2014, delivering an entirely new set of capabilities, including Software-Defined Network (SDN) management via full integration with...
View ArticleAccelerating Network Virtualization with VMware NSX and EMC Service Assurance...
*The following is a guest blog post from Venky Deshpande from VMware NSX product management, discussing the integration that the VMware NSX Network Virtualization Platform has with the EMC Service...
View ArticleNo Limits on Software-Defined Storage, EMC ScaleIO 1.30 Delivers Improved...
It is an exciting time to be a part of EMC as we are delivering software-defined storage solutions to our customers. I recognize that enterprise IT today is filled with multi-environment complexity and...
View ArticleCrowd Sourcing to Find the Winners from VMworld 2014
What do Virtual Volumes, 3D VDI graphics, OpenStack and multidimensional thumb wresting have in common? They are some of the things the alumni of VMworld 2014 got to experience in San Francisco last...
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