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Since quite a few folks asked for some more detail on EMC Atmos GeoProtect and the underlying erasure coding, we prepared a YouTube video overview. GeoProtect and Erasure Coding Enjoy! Related articles by Zemanta EMC adds awesome to Atmos (go.theregister.com)

In all seriousness – there’s a ton of going on at EMC focused on Hyper-V, and while I don’t want to help him too much, I do want to make the introduction I mentioned him earlier – Adrian Simays.   Adrian is “Mr Hyper-V” at EMC – and has now been gathering his strength to emerge publicly.   You can read up on EMC stuff focused on Hyper-V here:  Virtual Winfrastructure There’s a great post on all the technical docs on how to leverage Hyper-V on EMC kit which I’m grabbing the links. EMC Symmetrix with Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization EMC CLARiiON with Microsoft Hyper-V Server Best Practices: Using EMC Celerra IP Storage with Microsoft Hyper-V R2 over iSCSI EMC Replication Manager for Virtualized Environments EMC Blueprint:  Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Sharepoint Server Enabled by EMC CX, Replication Manager and Microsoft Hyper-V EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Sharepoint Server with Hyper-V EMC Networker: Complete Protection for Microsoft Hyper-V Proven Solution: EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enabled by EMC CX, Replication Manager and Microsoft Hyper-V using iSCSI Reference Architecture: EMC Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange 2007 Enabled by EMC CX, Replication Manager and Microsoft Hyper-V using iSCSI Reference Architecture: EMC Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server on EMC Unified Storage Platforms Reference Architecture: EMC Virtual Architecture for Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2007 Enabled by EMC CX and Hyper-V Disaster Recovery in a Geographically Dispersed Cross-Site Virtual Environment Enabled by EMC CX, RecoverPoint and Microsoft Hyper-V BTW – if you’re a Microsoft IT user interested at the intersection with infrastructure, another great technical blog to follow (IMO) is Brian’s Power Windows Blog .   Brian, for an example recently posted on all the cool sessions at EMC World that touch on Microsoft technologies. Now, of course, we have MORE of all of this on VMware – a lot more!   It’s just proportionally more based on how often our customers ask for VMware-specific content and integration rather than Hyper-V, but now I’m just smack-talkin’…   Adrian, it’s on  

NetApp’s Georgens said aloud the other day that automated tiering of storage is not the hot button that everyone is making it out to be.  As reported by Tech Target, Georgens maintains automated tiering is definitely overrated, although it’s being hailed as another “must-have” offering within a year or so due to the rise of Flash

I have been tracking the formation of mainframe mini-me’s of late — stacks of proprietary hardware plus software created from various vendors who have agreed to work together to stovepipe what they once called “open systems.”  The latest word in this space came yesterday, when Cisco announced that it was dropping HP as a certified reseller for its

Everyone has no doubt gotten the word about today’s announcement from Isilon about their next-gen clustered NAS product line.  If not, here are their talking points in a nutshell. I

I was at a customer dinner event last night, and predictably I got asked what I thought about yesterday's NetApp announcement by several EMC people.

My latest column for the Dutch publication, Storage Magazine: The Insulting Thing about Clouds “Cloud computing,” and its conceptual progeny, “cloud storage,” are great ideas. However, these concepts haven’t translated into meaningful technology so far as I can tell.

Okay, so I was tricked by an email into clicking on a link to a video report about Microsoft and HP joining forces to create stovepipes for running Microsoft software on HP hardware.  See the video for yourself here. The idea, supposedly driven by cloud computing and NOT by Oracle’s acquistion of Sun/STK (IDC goes to

I figured I’d start the year off right and give all of you a bit of an overview on the Dell R610 hardware that I use in my test and development work.  Got 6 of these guys in the other day so, I shot a quick video overview of the hardware and specs for you to take a look at. I don’t mention the HBAs or CNAs that I use (Brocade, Emulex, and Qlogic) because it does vary a bit depending on the loadout that I’m working with.  Common denominator to everything, though, is VMware ESX4i. If there’s anything else you want me to provide an overview on, please let me know! cheers, Dave Related articles by Zemanta Why FCoE is a GOOD thing… (flickerdown.com) Life with Qlogic’s 5802V: Part 1 (flickerdown.com) Emulex gets short-lived FCoE design win (theregister.co.uk) Emulex posts higher than expected results… (theregister.co.uk)

Over the last few weeks, I've been doing an informal survey of IT organizations aggressively pursuing virtualization, as part of some other work I'm doing. I wanted to share with you the common themes that I'm finding over and over again — you either know these things already, or — perhaps — might find them interesting in your particular situation. Background We wanted to know how people are overcoming specific challenges.  We went to EMC's "Studio E" group who manages references for us, and asked them to send out a short survey.  BTW, if you're an EMC customer, and haven't joined Studio E , you might want to consider it … Lots of responses.  I winnowed out about a dozen I found interesting for one reason or another, and got them on the phone for about 30 minutes each just so I could get a bit more color.