Internet of Things
Dell announces new IoT organization to improve ‘IQT’ co-ordination among Dell companies
Dell doubles down on the Internet of Things, announcing a new organization, enhanced funding and a road map for future innovation.
Jeremy Burton
Servers
New 14th gen PowerEdge servers highlight first day of Dell EMC World
The dominant theme of this year’s Dell EMC World is the automation of the data centre, and a key part of that is the announcement of its latest servers, with availability set for summer.
Storage
EMC says new Unity all-flash arrays will do big volume in Dell distribution channel
Unity is aimed at the mid-market all-flash segment of the market, under XtremIO, and EMC believes that unlike the VNXe family, this will be a truly successful volume product.
Big Data
EMC’s shift in Data Lake strategy opens up new partner opportunities
EMC’s Data Lake 2.0 significantly enhances the original core-focused Data Lake strategy by extending it to the edge and the cloud, as well as strengthening the core. This is also likely to expand partner opportunities somewhat beyond the very limited involvement thought likely when the original Data lake was announced.
Software
EMC defines open source strategy, opens ScaleIO to freemium model
EMC’s announcements indicate that EMC’s open source strategy is becoming much more critical, something the company says is good news for their channel partners.
Big Data
EMC Federation Business Data Lake to be strong play for top partners
The Federation Business Data Lake greatly expands EMC’s converged Big Data offerings, and while only EMC’s more sophisticated partners will likely be able to sell it, it will be available to them.
Data Centre
EMC programs look to allay customer flash fears
EMC announces a trio of programs to address customer concerns with flash storage, including a guarantee that XtremIO products will last at least 7 years.
Cloud
EMC debuts Elastic Cloud Storage Appliance
EMC says its new appliance allows enterprises and service providers to operate cloud storage cheaper than the big public cloud providers’ storage offerings.
Featured Post
EMC, “Federation” to offer joint solutions, link partner programs
EMC, VMware, RSA, Pivotal, VCE will align programs and offer integrated solutions, but remain independent in working with others.
Featured Post
EMC buys enterprise flash startup DSSD
EMC’s latest purchase will help it get to all-flash arrays in the hundreds of terabytes, focusing on Big Data apps like Hadoop and SAP HANA.