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Brian Gracely (@bgracely)
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- VP Solutions @Virtustream; Co-Host @thecloudcastnet; VMware vExpert; Top 100 Cloud Blogger; Co-Founder @GracelyGirl; Imported from Detroit
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Of course, a single project does mean a company has completely changed their culture. Razor is primarily focused on automating server hardware, but EMC is primarily a storage company. No roadmap was publicly announced at EMC World 2012 for Razor, although there was quite a bit of public discussion about moving storage platforms to x86 Intel platforms, and some hints about consolidating compute and storage in a hybrid enclosure. So maybe Razor will eventually be adopted by EMC, or maybe it will require the community to drive new adoption models.
Twitter has been awash (again) with banter about the myth or reality of private clouds. The conversations revolve around the technology, rehashing the “what makes a cloud a cloud” argument. Yet, all of us are right, and many of us are wrong. In the fight over private versus public clouds, we’re all arguing about the same thing. But we keep doing it because we somehow believe we can confuse the customer into buying “more of mine” and “less of hers” if we explain how our vision of cloud is better. I’ve written about what cloud is or isn’t several times in the past, but, I feel that I missed some important context. The context is what leads me
Listening to the ‘Speaking In Tech’ podcast got me thinking a bit more about the software-defined meme and wondering if it is a real thing as opposed to a load of hype; so for the time being I’ve decided to treat it as a real thing or at least that it might become a real thing…and in time, maybe a better real thing?The role of the storage array seems to be changing at present or arguably simplifying; the storage array is becoming where you store stuff which you want to persist. And that may sound silly but basically what I mean is that the storage array is not where you are going to process transactions. Your transactional storage will be as
This meter represents your reputation at a 100% scale based on your level of participation on the site.Find out moreIt’s Wednesday, time for a fresh episode of Engineers Unplugged! This week features VCE’s Tom Chatham (@tchatham) and EMC’s Travers Nicholas (@traversn) in a joint whiteboarding session around virtualization, VPLEX, and workload mobility.Welcome to Engineers Unplugged, where technologists talk to each other the way they know best, with a whiteboard. The rules are simple:Do you agree or disagree with Tom and Travers vision? Post a comment below or Tweet with #EngineersUnplugged.**Engineers Unplugged is coming to Barcelona for VMworld
What do you use to store your OpenStack volumes? If you’re building an OpenStack cloud, you’ll need that block level storage to give to your instances through an iSCSI session by default. If you want to have intelligent, flexible, scalable, and reliable physical storage for this purpose, one alternative you might consider is the Isilon IQ clustered storage system. We’ve created a driver you can use with it.Now a part of EMC, Isilon was created to meet the needs of high-performance computing environments to provide both scalability and performance. The core of this uses an intelligent OneFS distributed file system. Key features:So, it’s a great
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