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What’s EMC’s Strategy with New Software-Led Storage Platform ViPR? Curb Market Disruption #emcworld
EMC is doing for storage what VMware did for servers with ViPR, a new software-defined storage solution for managing large scale data centers. The offering made its debut today at the annual EMC World 2013 conference in Las Vegas. ViPR is pegged as a highly abstracted, vendor-agnostic platform built for service providers and large enterprises ...
Why Did EMC’s Project Propel Work? Kate Parson Explains, and Offers CIOs Advice
On July 4, 2012 EMC deployed project Propel, an SAP application stack that replaced the legacy Oracle environment it relied on for the greater part of the last two decades. Kate Parsons, a senior director and project management officer at EMC IT, provided her unique perspective on the initiative in a recent interview with Wikibon’s ...
EMC’s Bernhard Schulzki Breaks Down SAP Migration + Virtualization [VIDEO]
Bernhard Schulzki, vice president of technology partner management at EMC, plays a key role in his company’s ecosystem. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante caught up with the executive at SAP Week to discuss a few of the more important issues facing organizations that leverage SAP in their environments. Schulzki says that customers are ...
How EMC’s Ecosystem + SAP Aid the Transition to Cloud [Exclusive Video]
Terry Breen, the senior vice president of global strategic sales for EMC, attended the recently concluded SAP Week and shared his take on the cloud, HANA and a couple other topics in an interview with Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante. Breen says that the event is an opportunity for EMC, VMware, SAP and VCE to ...
Drowning in Java : An EMC Architect’s Journey from Oracle to HANA [Video]
Mike Harding, the systems architect for EMC’s IT department, discussed his firm’s internal SAP deployment (Project Propel) in a recent interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante at the recently concluded SAP Week. Before Project Propel went live in July 2012, EMC employees were dependent on an Oracle-based platform that was collapsing under ...
Five Reasons to Adopt Virtualization-aware Storage : vStorage Isn’t Enough
Tegile Systems, a maker of medium-range unified hybrid arrays, says that traditional technologies don’t deliver the functionality that’s needed to optimize storage infrastructure for modern workloads. Mainstream solutions such as VMware’s vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) and Windows Server 2012, which only delivers a limited amount of support for hyperscale environments, simply don’t cut ...
How Virtualization Cut Complexity & Time for SAP Apps in the Cloud
SAP principle architect Dominic Uliano took some time off to chat with Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante during EMC’s recent partner event, SAP Week, at its Executive Briefing Center in Hopkinton, MA. He discussed the impact of virtualization, cloud computing and other trends on traditional SAP deployments. Uliano starts the interview by noting that SAP’s ...
Memory Is Driving Innovation : Cisco’s Rajiv Thomas on Modern SAP Apps + Big Data
Rajiv Thomas, a Sales Consulting System Engineer at Cisco, gave an interview to Wikibon’s Dave Vellante during the SAP Week gathering at EMC’s EBC in Hopkinton, MA. Vellante starts by noting that Cisco, a dominant player in the networking market, is one of EMC’s biggest partners. The vendor is a major backer of VCE, a ...
Software’s Eating the World : Amazon’s Appetite Grows for Enterprise
Switch Communications EVP Jason Mendenhall provided his take on cloud computing, Amazon Web Services and Big Data in the most recent Peer Incite meeting, a monthly event that gives the Wikibon community an opportunity discuss the hottest topics in enterprise IT. ServicesAngle editor Bert Latamore included the main highlights from the debate in the latest ...
MapR Turns to LucidWorks for Smarter Big Data Search + Discovery
MapR is consciously growing its presence in the open-source community. A few weeks ago the company announced that it’s bundling the free version of its flagship product with Ubuntu, and this week it revealed a new partnership with LucidWorks. MapR integrated the firm’s open-source search software into its Hadoop distribution to provide customers with a ...