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The unstructured data explosion: Dell EMC’s data storage vision
Five years from now the world will be different. Today’s giant could be tomorrow’s zero; today’s nothing tomorrow’s next-big thing. And the differentiator between success and failure could be as simple as how a company values its unstructured data.
“Existing industries are really using unstructured data now as their lifeblood to change their business. … Data is part of the capital of a company now,” said Manuvir Das (pictured), senior vice president and general manager, Unstructured Data Storage, at Dell Technologies Inc.
Das spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and John Walls (@JohnWalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas. They discussed unstructured data, new storage methods, and Dell EMC’s vision for the future of data storage. (* Disclosure below.)
Isilon storage now on-premises and in the cloud
There are four trends in unstructured data storage, according to Das: flash, the public cloud, analytics, and advent of object. “Everything we’re doing at Dell EMC with unstructured storage is to embrace these four trends,” he stated.
One of these four trends is public cloud. Dell EMC’s Isilon scale-out network-attached storage platform is best known as an on-premises-only solution, but a Dell EMC — Google Cloud Platform partnership is bringing Isilon’s large file system capabilities to Google Cloud.
“We want to help the customers get to the pubic cloud by giving them the same technology there that they’ve had on-premise,” Das said, describing how Dell’s physical Isilon clusters are hosted in the same place as Google’s compute. “So now a customer can run their application on the compute virtual machines of Google cloud, but they have some millisecond access to an Isilon cluster that is dedicated to them.”
Guiding the customer through the disruptive transformation and out the other side is how Das envisions the ideal role of his team. “We think about what are the ways, on behalf of the customer, the world of unstructured storage is being disrupted and how are we going to be there on the other side with the customer?” he concluded.
Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the Dell Technologies World 2018 event. (* Disclosure: Dell Technologies Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Dell EMC nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)
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