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The software evolution for modernizing IBM’s flash storage strategy | #IBMedge
Over the last few years, companies such as IBM have begun focusing on faster storage solutions, including the cloud. With the introduction of flash technology, the storage game changed drastically. Now, not only can companies store more data, they can access it faster than ever before. At IBM Edge 2014, John Furrier and Dave Vellante ...
Flash storage report card: How was IBM graded? | #IBMedge
With flash technologies comprising the new frontier in the storage solutions market, how have big players, such as IBM, performed? A few years ago, flash was not a much-supported technology, but that has changed. Now, everyone wants in on the game. As a part of the festivities at the IBM Edge 2014 conference, analysts John ...
Tackling unpredictable demands, IBM explains its XIV high-end storage solution | #IBMedge
In the ever-changing world of data storage and cloud computing, companies such as IBM continually seek ways to gain an edge over the competition. IBM believes its high-end storage solution XIV is a cut above. With the XIV storage system, IBM looks to provide predictable and consistent high performance that is extremely easy to use, ...
Software-defined storage for data environments explained | #IBMedge
With the development of new storage technologies, the old ways of data management have evolved. Planning and strategizing new storage solutions while keeping new innovations in mind is the job of Bernie Spang, VP of Strategy Software at IBM. John Furrier and Dave Vellante, of theCUBE, recently spoke to Spang at the IBM Edge 2014 ...
The three core principles behind EMC’s new partner program
EMC has implemented a new Business Partner Program, according to Fred Kohout, VP of Global Partner Marketing at EMC. Completely retooled from previous years, the Partner Program was developed to help train EMC’s reseller partners. It rewards partners with increased revenue opportunities and expanded market penetration. Based on four tiers, the program offers additional benefits ...
What’s game-changing about VMware DR services? #EMCworld
The introduction of cloud computing in the 2000s has allowed companies to maximize the use of the available computing power on a cloud server. This in turn reduces the environmental impact of running a number of separate servers. A hybrid cloud utilizes both the private and public cloud to perform separate functions within the same ...
On the adoption + obstacles of virtualization | VMware @ #EMCworld
When server virtualization was first introduced, there was some resistance as a result of Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation, also known as FUD. Oracle was one of the biggest opponents to such changes, stating that it wouldn’t support it. Since the initial blowback, and thanks to articles such as Wikibon’s “Damn the Torpedoes, Virtualize Oracle ASAP,” ...
How co-innovation achieves the second generation cloud era | #EMCworld
EMC and Capgemini worked together to develop a beneficial partnership, with Capgemini providing the knowledge and expertise when dealing with customers, such as banks, and EMC providing the hardware and software to make it all happen. Individually, each company doesn’t have the resources to offer their customers what they can offer together. Terry Breen, senior ...
How agile IT saved print media from Bubble 2.0 | #EMCworld
As advertising shifted from the printed page to the computer screen, Classified Ventures, LLC/Cars.com was founded in 1997 by a joint venture between several media companies, including Graham Holdings, The Washington Post, and the Tribune Company, among others. Because of these visionaries and pioneers of the digital age, Classified Ventures and Cars.com are where they ...
Managing human-generated metadata, access + protection | #EMCworld
Human-generated data describes the meta-data a company generates through its day-to-day operations. On a daily basis, company employees typically have access to information they shouldn’t. Varonis provides an innovative software platform that gives enterprise businesses the ability to manage their human-generated data, including analyzing, managing, and migrating their meta-data. David Gibson, VP of marketing at ...
