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In EMC The Source Episode #7, I spoke to Ken Mills (@OtherKen) and Terry Gainer, former law enforcement officer with over 30 years’ experience on the force.   Terry outlined the rapid growth and challenges faced by law enforcement offices in connecting, storing and managing massive amounts of data in a Video Surveillance Data Lake. That conversation continued in Episode #29 with Steve Teitelbaum (@STeitelbaum), Surveillance Solutions Manager at Avnet Embedded.

This past week at the International Security Conference (ISC West), EMC announced the availability of EVT (EMC Video Transport).  EVT is designed to enhance our customers’ video surveillance solutions by enhancing Edge to Core to Cloud capabilities. 

This week on EMC The Source Podcast, Ken Mills (@OtherKen) and Frank McCarthy review all of the details.

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Customer application workloads drive just about everything we do

I recently sat down with Jason Kotsaftis (@Appsolutecloud), Sr.

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The EMC product portfolio continues to evolve, and while flash

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Cloud computing continues to gain momentum across organizations of all sizes.  IDC estimates that 80% of IT service organizations will move to hybrid cloud environments by the end of 2017.

What does a hybrid cloud do for your business?  What are the real business benefits?  More important, once you have determined that a hybrid deployment is the right cloud for you, where do you start?  How do you order a cloud?  How do you build a cloud?  What options are there? 

Principled Technologies recently published an in-depth research report focused on uncovering the real-world value of a hybrid cloud deployment.  The report “IT service transformation with hybrid cloud: Buy or Build?”, details the journey of an average company’s path to a hybrid cloud.  The report includes a detailed breakdown of 3 year cost savings and all associated costs for both building and buying the required infrastructure.  The full report is available here and in EMC The Source App under bonus material for this episode.

I recently spoke to Kevin Gray, Sr Manager of EMC Engineered Solutions, Kevin was part of the EMC Team behind the white paper.  Where did the savings come from, what did we learn?  Find out this week on “EMC The Source”.

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XtremIO continues to redefine the way our customers manage and deploy their applications.  A scale out storage architecture combining ease of use with in memory metadata, providing a foundation for changing the way storage is viewed.  Storage is an enabler! 

EMC announced the acquisition of XtremIO at EMC World 2012.  A year later at EMC World 2013, XtremIO was in Directed Availability and in 2014 XtremIO was the market leading All Flash Array on the planet.  XtremIO continues to transform our customers’ applications and data centers.

And all along Josh Goldstein (@EMCXtremIO) has been leading the Product Marketing and Product Management.  Josh was recently promoted to Vice President of EMC Primary Storage Strategy.  I recently took a trip down memory lane with Josh and talked about the journey that is EMC XtremIO.

Yes, you can still find the original Area 51 video here!

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2016 is the Year of Flash!  The last few episodes of EMC the Source Podcast covered the latest All-Flash Storage offerings here at EMC.  DSSD D5 and VMAX All-Flash represent a quantum leap in enterprise Flash storage offering.  While 2016 represents a monumental year for Flash, the cost tipping point, technology will continue to evolve.

So what’s next?  What can we expect beyond 2016?  I sat down with Dan Cobb, Vice President of EMC Flash and Non-Volatile Strategy.  We talk skyscrapers, Jetsons, silicon and the blurring line between storage, memory and CPU.

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DSSD D5 was only half of the EMC Quantum Leap event. If you missed last week’s EMC The Source Podcast Episode #32, be sure to get the DSSD D5 details with Will Layton. For the full launch replay, head here. In addition to DSSD D5, EMC introduced “VMAX ALL-FLASH”.

EMC VMAX All Flash Arrays are architected to solve the CIO challenge of embracing a modernized Flash-centric data center and hybrid cloud while simultaneously simplifying, automating and consolidating IT operations. VMAX All Flash isn’t just bigger, better and faster, but it was engineered for the latest, high density Flash technology. These data services address the new requirements of the modern data center while continuing to deliver the reliability and availability EMC customers have relied on for decades. 

I sat down with Mick Turner (@MickTurner508), fresh off his return from London.   Mick and I discussed what’s new with VMAX All Flash, its architecture, and how it fits into the EMC Storage Portfolio.

For more details, visit www.emc.com/VMAX and check the bonus section of EMC The Source Podcast for more information. Thanks for listening.

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EMC Unveils DSSD D5: a Quantum Leap in Flash Storage: You have seen the Press Release and watched the live Quantum Leap event! DSSD D5: is 10Milliion IOPS, ~100 Microsecond Latency, 100GB/s Bandwidth and 144TB raw Flash in five U – Truly a Quantum Leap! 

But what does it all mean? I sat down with the Vice President of DSSD Business Development, Will Layton (@WillLayton) at a recent customer briefing to get the latest. Will was more than happy to share some insight not only on the technology, but how it is helping our customers transform their operations to the Modern Data Center.

For more details, visit www.emc.com/dssd and check the bounus section of EMC The Source Podcast for more information. Thanks for listening.

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With all flash and hybrid configurations EMCs VNX platform provides a solid enterprise storage foundation for midrange customers.  Recently, I sat down with Brian Henderson (@bhendu) , Director Product Marketing EMC Midrange Solutions to get the latest developments.  From the Virtual VNX (vVNX), the small VNXe and full VNX 8000, we touched on just about everything VNX, from the VNXe starting as small as 8 physical drives all the way up to the VNX 8000 which scales to 1,500 drives. 

We talk VNX on tour with U2, Tech on Tour! and the latest updates in the land of VNX including:  introduction of 3D NAND large capacity drives, EMC VPLEX support for advanced data availability and mobility and VDM Metro Syc stretch cluster support.

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Yesterday’s launch of VxRail represents a historic moment in EMC history. Together with VMware the introduction of the VCE VxRail appliance family marks the first joint product announcement, where EMC and VMware engineers have worked side by side developing, testing and validation a fully integrated hyper converged appliance.

IT infrastructure is no longer just supporting the business; it is the business enabler. Infrastructure must support constant business demands for new applications and services with limited budgets and resources. Yet there is limited time to constantly evaluate and integrate hardware, software and networking solutions to meet continuously evolving requirements. Create an automated, dynamic infrastructure that adapts to your business demands with the VCE VxRail Appliance Family.

The VxRail appliance family offers Massive scalability, Simplified management, Simplified IT and Industry-leading data services that extend beyond the traditional appliance model including: deduplication, compression, replication, backup, and cloud tiering to public clouds, such as VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure. 

The official launch replay can be found here, along with links to anything you need to know about the launch and VxRail.

This week on EMC The Source Podcast I sat down with Colin Galagher (@WorldC3), Sr. Director, Hyper Converged infrastructure Marketing. We recorded immediately after the launch, to say he was fired up would be an understatement. Thanks for listening.   

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