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Happy day for EMC unified customers.   A whole bunch of new integration, additional cost savings – all for existing and new EMC customers.   Oh, and it’s all free Here’s the PR , but in usual fashion, I tend to like the nerd version. Read on for more! So – without further ado, what’s new and GA?

One of the things I’ve learned, having been in more traditional “Enterprise” environments and “Internet” companies is that the latter have much larger scale issues, with respect to storage, by an order of magnitude or two, than the former.   Fortunately, there’s also a difference in the nature of the data, such that the most voluminous (and, arguably, most valuable) data, web access logs, are highly compressible (5-10x) with the right algorithm. Compression is important atRead More…

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