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Virtual Storage, Global Federation and Distributed Cache Coherence Follow-Up

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:50:59 +0000

Lots to talk about as a follow-on from today's discussion around virtual storage, global federation and the underlying distributed cache coherence technology that makes all this wonderful juju possible. Most of the focus was on the specific capabilities around global storage federation, and the underlying distributed cache coherence technology that makes all of this useful and interesting

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This Changes Everything

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:39:39 +0000

For those of us in the IT business, we occasionally encounter a fundamental new enabling technology that forces us to reconsider some of our long-held notions around the way things work. I'd put server and desktop virtualization into that category, as well as the ubiquitous web. If you're a storage person, flash has that potential as well. If backup is your thing, the combination of dedupe and low-cost disks has changed how you think about things. In this post, I'd like to start to introduce a technology concept that — yes — has the potential to change a great deal of how we think about IT at scale. And, yes, this is going to be a long post … Context Today, Pat Gelsinger did an important event with industry analysts. You can see his materials and webcast here . In addition, I wanted to offer up my views on this topic as well. I'll be using his slide deck as a reference point

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You Really Should Go To EMC World. Really.

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:11:00 +0000

No, this is not another shameless pitch to attend yet-another-vendor show.

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You Really Should Go To EMC World. Really.