Category Archives: Announcements

VMware vExpert 2017 announced

Posted on February 9, 2017 by admin

VMware, a few hours back announced the batch of 2017 vExperts. I am honoured to be a member of this group, fourth year in a row for me. The wait is over, vExpert 2017 has been announced at https://t.co/lNE1KzAG3n. Thank … Continue reading →

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Time for a change – a new beginning

Posted on December 19, 2016 by admin

I am very pleased to announce that I have joined the Dell EMC’s Converged division today. The converged division is one of the areas of toughest competition these days and it is very important for each vendor to deliver their … Continue reading →

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Dell EMC World 2016 – through the product announcements

Posted on October 30, 2016 by admin

EMC declared 2016 as the Year-of-Flash and they had a few interesting products added in their All-Flash portfolio this year. ISILON AFA, VMAX 250F contributing more to this line-up and a few other announcements were the highlights of the Last week at … Continue reading →

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ISILON Nitro – All-Flash ISILON array from Dell EMC

Posted on October 19, 2016 by admin

At EMC World 2016, EMC announced the “Project Nitro” – a high performance NAS storage array. And today at Dell EMC World, Dell EMC announced the GA (pre-order from today and GA by 2017) of the All-Flash ISILON array ISILON Nitro. … Continue reading →

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EMC UNITY -“SIMPLICITY IS THE ULTIMATE SOPHISTICATION”

Posted on May 2, 2016 by admin

Today at EMC World, EMC announced the EMC Unity unified storage solution. The al-new Unified storage solution, available in All-Flash and Hybrid variants. As the subject says, Unity is Simple in many aspects from purchase to service. New controllers, no more … Continue reading →

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Cloud integration with Cohesity storage platform

Posted on April 23, 2016 by admin

Cohesiy added Cloud integration to their secondary storage platform, featuring 3 cost-effective solutions for archival, tiering and replication. They had added a good set of features recently with their 2.0 release. Cohesity presented at Storage Field Day 9, in which … Continue reading →

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The all-new FlashBlade is here from Pure Storage

Posted on March 15, 2016 by admin

Yesterday (14-Mar), Pure Storage announced their new All-Flash products at the Pure//Accelerate event. FlashBlade is to support unstructured data (File, Object, containers etc…) requirements and FlashArray//m10 to strengthen their FlashArray//m series. FlashBlade, the cloud-scale data platform provides All-Flash efficiency and performance … Continue reading →

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DSSD D5 – EMC’s quantum leap in flash storage with the rack-scale all-flash appliance

Posted on March 6, 2016 by admin

In their ‘Quantum Leap’ announcements, alongwith VMAX All-Flash storage EMC announced DSSD D5 flash appliance on Monday (29-Feb). And it is really a big leap in flash storage as they produce un-matching performance and capacity in small footprint. D5 is a ‘rack-scale’ flash … Continue reading →

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EMC VMAX to the All-Flash market – VMAX All-Flash arrays

Posted on February 29, 2016 by admin

On Monday (29-Feb), EMC announced their All-Flash models of VMAX arrays. With the addition of All-Flash version of EMC VMAX 3 series of arrays, EMC is targeting to continue to maintain their position in today’s busiest storage market – the AFA Market. … Continue reading →

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It’s now Oracle Ravello Systems – latest in acquisition.

Posted on February 26, 2016 by admin

Earlier this week – on 22nd Feb – we heard of another interesting acquisition news. Ravello Systems has been acquired by Oracle. Ravello Systems – a Cloud Computing venture started in 2011, known for their virtual labs using Nested Virtualization. … Continue reading →

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