Storage Nation

Actually, this week it turns out people are ranting at me, rather than the other way around. By all accounts, it was a great week: did a great broadcast thing on Tuesday, met with a great customer/partner on Wed, and had a similar experience on Thursday. Along the way, I wrote a short post about my early days at EMC — one of those intensely personal experiences I felt like sharing.  The message was simple: don't rest on your laurels, because things change fast

Mucho going on in View (and more generally VDI) land.   My first part I was posted here . If you’re interested in a quick catch-up, read on… View 4.5 beta The existence of this has been discussed by others ( here , and here ) – I will neither confirm nor deny.   What I can say is that the ongoing march of improved simplicity, scale, function in the hosted virtual desktop use case is well underway, and that every day, more and more customers are starting to embrace it.

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?