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EMCWorld 2011 Announcements

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After flying into Las Vegas this morning, checking in to the Cosmopolitan Hotel with 2000+ other EMCer’s, and taking the bus to the Venetian, I’m finally settling in a bit.  I watched Pat Gelsinger’s keynote via recorded video on Facebook.com/EMCCorp to get caught up on what I’ve missed so far and there was more in there than I expected.

Buried in the hour long keynote about EMC’s portfolio and how it aligns with Big Data and Cloud Computing were several important announcements.

  1. Atmos 2.0 – Improved Performance, Compatibility with Amazon S3, and a Windows native client called GeoDrive.   Atmos already offered a client for Redhat Linux which joined the Redhat client into the Atmos Cloud for direct access to objects/files.  GeoDrive provides native file access to the Atmos cloud for Windows clients.  This is particularly useful for supporting legacy applications that have not (or cannot) be modified to use the Atmos RESTful API.
  2. Isilon NL108 – The new NearLine nodes contain 108TB of disk space in each node, and this increase in node capacity has similarly increased the maximum filesystem size of an Isilon cluster from 10PB to 15PB (In a SINGLE filesystem..  And yes, that’s PetaBytes).
  3. Project Lightning – PCIe based FLASH caching adapters for Servers.  Intended to work in conjunction with FASTVP to cache data at the server and possibly distributed across servers.
  4. EMC Hadoop (aka Greenplum HD) – EMC supplied and supported Hadoop distribution which can be acquired as software or as an appliance, similar to Greenplum.     

Lot’s more to come.  Chuck Hollis just sat down here so it’s time to socialize..

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Much ado about the future.. (of IT)

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The 8:50am Alaska Air flight from Seattle to Boston today may as well have been an EMC chartered flight. Full of my current EMC peers, previous coworkers from my past 12 years in IT, as well as other EMC customers; all of us making the pilgrimage to Boston for EMC World 2010. The five and a half hour flight was both a networking opportunity and a reunion at the same time.

Despite the time away from home while my wife and I prepared for some big life changes, I’m excited to attend my 4th EMC World in 5 years, my first as an employee of EMC. This year promises to be extremely exciting as we make a number of huge announcements during the week, some of which have the potential to change the landscape of information storage and management. As an IT professional for over a decade, I’m a techie at heart and this is really exciting stuff. As a new EMC employee, the position and direction of the company validates many of the reasons I chose to take on this new career path, and with this company.

I plan to provide some commentary on the announcements we make during the week, particularly around virtual storage and the concept of “cloud computing”. I’m not a fan of industry buzzwords and “cloud” is one of the worst offenders but I think it’s important for IT professionals to understand what the vendors really mean when they talk about cloud, and how it affects every day life in IT.

If you are attending EMC World this year, I hope you feel the excitement, and I hope you start to see the bright future we are all headed for.

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