IBM recently partnered with data efficiency solutions company Permabit Technology Corp. to bring Permabit’s SANblox inline data efficiency to the IBM FlashSystem 9000 and V9000. A market leader in the flash array space, IBM makes data efficiency and capacity optimization priorities and is thus “riding the wave of transformation” that is taking place in the ...

In a little more than a year, EMC’s XtremIO rose to become the leading all-flash array, according to Gartner’s latest solid-state array market analysis. This is exciting, but not entirely surprising for Josh Goldstein, VP of Marketing & Product Management for XtremIO. “This is something that customers have found insatiable,” Goldstein told theCUBE during EMC ...

As Big Data continues to mature, Bill Schmarzo, EMC Corp.’s CTO of Global Services, Big Data Practice, has noticed the Big Data shift from the IT to the business space. The shift will continue as more businesses recognize Big Data’s value. “I still scoff at organizations that say ‘we’re going to do a proof-of-concept on ...

Insurance underwriter Markel Corp. grew rapidly through acquisition. With this growth, the company found itself with disparate architecture in its data center that needed streamlining. Senior director of IT, Mike von Slomski, told theCUBE that he learned about the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud at EMC World 2014 and thought it would accomplish that task, as ...

Fox Sports Australia, the leading subscription sports provider in Australia, covers 25 Tier 1 sports live, 23 hours a day. The suite of Fox Sports channels include one-third traditional broadcast and two-thirds new media; therefore, the company uses a lot of IP and many different technologies to get the job done. ‘The role of technology ...

At EMC World, the company announced Project CoprHD (copperhead), an open source version of the EMC ViPR Controller storage automation software. Project CoprHD is available as a free download. Randy Bias, EMC ETD’s VP of Technology, told theCUBE during EMC World 2015 that the company embraced the idea of open source software. “There was no ...

Consulting, technology and outsourcing corporation Capgemini (Cap Gemini S.A.) began working with the EMC Corp.’s Federation Big Data Lake solution before its March 2014 release. Steve Jones, Capgemini’s global VP of Big Data, sees Big Data as another means to provide value to Capgemini clients. “Companies in the automotive, retail and oil industry, for example, ...

Sungard customers struggle with how to leverage Big Data and how to get the most of the agility and scalability of such tools, according to Wade Alt, senior VP of Global Channels, Marketing Strategy and Solutions for Sungard Availability Services. Sungard partners with EMC to deliver “secure, scalable, resilient IT infrastructure platforms that can grow ...

At EMC World 2015, EMC Corp. announced partner VCE Company, LLC’s VxRack, which enables customers to consume EMC ScaleIO as a software and as an integrated converged infrastructure appliance, according to VP and GM Boaz Palgi, VP and GM of  ScaleIO/ASD at EMC. ScaleIO also announced that it is available in a “free and frictionless manner” for ...

EMC Corp. Customer Service President Kevin Roche says that his department can now leverage data to create a more “predictive, proactive, solutions support model.” Roche also sees interesting results from “leveraging big data and providing analytics in a closed-loop process,” he said in an interview with theCUBE during EMC World 2015. Solutions across the Federation ...