EMC World 2015: Day 1 General Session

More than 10,000 customers, analysts and journalists swarmed the expo center at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this week to hear the latest news from converged infrastructure and enterprise IT storage provider EMC during this year's EMC World conference. The VAR Guy was in the middle of the action to bring you some of the biggest highlights from Day 1 of the massive industry event.

Michael Cusanelli, Associate Editor

May 5, 2015

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David Goulden CEO EMC
David Goulden, CEO, EMC

More than 14,000 customers, analysts and journalists swarmed the expo center at the Venetian Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this week to hear the latest news from converged infrastructure and enterprise IT storage provider EMC during this year’s EMC World 2015 conference. The VAR Guy was in the middle of the action to bring you some of the biggest highlights from Day 1 of the massive industry event.

EMC Information Infrastructure CEO David Goulden first took the stage, discussing the growth of the “Information Generation” and how people of all ages have new expectations driven by the rapid increase in technology. To meet these needs, businesses need to focus on several core areas, including agile innovation, delivering real-time experiences and predicting new ways to serve customers.

EMC is working to drive this transformation by delivering solutions based on the so-called “Third Platform,” which includes cloud and mobile technology. By helping customers to increase their overall growth, manage risk and reduce cost, Goulden said the EMC Federation could effectively help remove CIO pain points that result from an influx of technology in the workplace.

Goulden also walked the audience through several of the company’s converged infrastructure announcements, including:

  • XtremIO 4.0 – nicknamed “The Beast,” the latest addition to EMC’s family of XtremIO solutions can offer customers configurations of up to eight 40TB X-Bricks, which doubles the density of the company’s previous offerings.

  • VMAX3 – building on the release of VMAX3 in July, EMC announced several updates to its enterprise data service platform, including the ability for users to expand enterprise data services to multiple platforms and adding integration for VIPR and EMC CloudArray.

  • VxRack  – designed for large data centers, the VxRack is a hyperconverged rackscale system that expands EMC’s portfolio beyond the company’s Vblock solutions and appliances to include full rack solutions. VxRack is an engineered system akin to traditional Vblock solutions and is hypervisor agnostic. Customers can scale their solutions up to 38PB, or 1,000 nodes total.

  • The EMC Data Domain DD9500 – EMC’s latest high-end backup solution that features up to 58.7TB/hour throughput using the company’s Data Domain Boost software.

Stay tuned to The VAR Guy for more info directly from the show floor throughout the week.

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Michael Cusanelli

Michael Cusanelli

Associate Editor, Penton Technology Group, Channel

Michael Cusanelli is the associate editor for Penton Technology’s channel properties, including The VAR Guy, MSPmentor and Talkin' Cloud. He has written articles and produced video for Newsday.com and is a graduate of Stony Brook University's School of Journalism in New York. In his spare time Michael likes to play video games, watch sci-fi movies and participate in all things nerdy. He can be reached at [email protected]

 

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