EMC World 2010 Boston turned a spotlight on cloud computing, data backup and converged storage management
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. SearchStorage.com senior news writer Beth Pariseau provided live coverage from the
three-day event, and other TechTarget reporters and editors from SearchStorage.com,
SearchServerVirtualization.com and SearchDataBackup.com were on hand to provide news and analysis
from EMC Corp.'s annual user conference. Check out these stories, as well as our Storage Soup blog, for
comprehensive EMC World 2010 Boston coverage.
EMC's
Tucci: "We're taking a virtualized approach"
EMC World 2010 Boston kicked off with a keynote speech from CEO Joe Tucci. Tucci stated that while
other companies will be building stack offerings, comprised of servers, database, middleware and
storage, EMC will be taking a virtualization approach. Tucci also discussed EMC's acquisition
approach and how the company plans to help manage data growth with cloud computing.
VPlex
active-active storage creates a stir at EMC World
EMC unveiled VPlex, its new set of products for federating data storage across geographic distance,
during the first day of EMC World 2010. Two of the four VPlex products, VPlex Local and VPlex
Metro, are available today. And while private cloud computing remains mostly theoretical for now,
there was significant customer interest surrounding the new VPlex product set.
EMC
previews FAST 2, block-level compression, common management console for Clariion and
Celerra
EMC World 2010 Boston included announcements that a second version of EMC's Fully Automated Storage
Tiering (FAST) software will be available in July. The new version has automated tiered storage
support and block-level compression for Clariion and Celerra. EMC also previewed new data migration
and storage efficiency features, as well as a common storage management interface for Clariion and
Celerra.
EMC
World Day 2: Backup and Unisphere
Day 2 at EMC World 2010 was packed with several announcements, most notably being that there is new
software from Data Domain called DD
Boost that can currently be integrated with NetBackup and Backup Exec. EMC also announced that
it is rolling out the Unisphere unified management platform that will put Celerra and Clariion
management into a single pan.
EMC,
VMware tighten storage integration
Private storage clouds and virtualization were a big topic at EMC World 2010 Boston, with a
particular focus on improving storage
integration with VMware. EMC announced that it is now possible to manage its Clariion and
Celerra storage lines through vCenter. Clariion and Celerra will now also support VMware vStorage
APIs for Array Integration in an effort to tighten storage integration.
This was first published in May 2010