Dell EMC World Austin provided the perfect opportunity to announce the latest enhancements to the Dell EMC market-leading portfolio of data protection software. Data domain Virtual Edition 3.0 along with Enhanced Cloud data protection and manageability and Prosupport One for Data Center highlighted the latest announcements.

Alex Almeida (@alxjalmeida), Manager, Technical Marketing for Data protection reviews the high-level announcements this week on Dell EMC The Source Podcast. For the latest Dell EMC Data Protection announcements be sure to follow @DellEMCProtect

Didn’t get a chance to visit Austin? You can check out all the keynotes and select breakouts sessions in the “Live” library here

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Dell EMC World Las Vegas, May 8th – 11tt, 2016 at The Las Vegas Venetian.

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Digital Transformation is here, and Dell EMC is leading the way. Dell EMC World in Austin provided the perfect opportunity for the very first “Dell EMC World”. A unique setting to highlight the power of Dell Technologies, Dell EMC and the entire family of companies. Bigger and better than ever, Dell EMC World included a full array of technical and strategy breakout sessions along with a CxO event for both commercial and enterprise size businesses.

With insights across cloud, mobility, big data, IoT security and storage, Dell EMC World offered something for everyone. From product announcements to workshops and labs, it was a great opportunity to learn from the best in the business.

I spent some time with Adeel Omer (@GeeekInAustin), we talked about Dell EMC World, the differences from prior years and what we found most interesting about the show and Dell Technologies!

Didn’t get a chance to visit Austin? You can check out all the keynotes and select breakouts sessions in the “Live” library here

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Dell EMC World Las Vegas, May 8th – 11tt, 2016 at The Las Vegas Venetian.

Don’t miss “Dell EMC The Source” app in the App Store.  Be sure to subscribe to Dell EMC The Source Podcast on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or Google Play and visit the official blog at thesourceblog.emc.com

The rapid growth of unstructured data represents a significant challenge for many enterprises across industries. As the volume and sources of data have expanded dramatically, traditional techniques to store and analyze information have proved to be too expensive and too slow to handle the massive data volumes modern enterprise product and manage. Dell EMC Isilon is designed to directly address that challenge, taking your data lake strategy to the next level with new scale-out offerings providing breakthrough efficiency, scale and agility from edge to core to cloud.

Earlier this week at Dell EMC World, Isilon became the latest member of the Dell EMC All-Flash Portfolio. This week on Dell EMC The Source, Ed Beauvais (@EdBeauvais), Director Isilon Product Marketing stops by to talk Isilon and the impact of All-Flash for density (68 PB) and performance (25 Million IOPS). How does that translate to your workloads? Find out this week on Dell EMC The Source. For more visit www.emc.com/isilon

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Cloud. Cloud is everywhere. Cloud is fueling the transformation of technology, so what is Dell EMC doing? Who are the other players in the industry and how are we working together? Dorian Naveh (@DorianNaveh), Sr. Director Technology Alliances joins me this week as we talk open source, cloud consumption models and the vast Dell EMC Cloud ecosystem and most important, how our customers are using Dell EMC technologies as a fundamental part of their cloud deployments. We touch on the higher level ecosystem landscape then drill a little deeper into OpenStack, and Dell EMC involvement in the community. For more information, visit the ECN community Everything OpenStack.

We also touched on the Dell EMC premier sponsorship of “Openstack Summit” October 25-28, 2016, in Barcelona, Spain.  OpenStack Summit is the most important gathering of IT leaders, telco operators, cloud administrators, app developers and OpenStack contributors building the future of cloud computing. As part of this year’s sponsorship, EMC will showcase exciting products and solutions with key partners and highlight our OpenStack Strategy.

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OpenStack Summit - Breakout Sessions with EMC Contributors

• Hello World for Murano - end to end process in a Docker container and more
  • Time/Day: Tue 25, 11:25am-12:05pm
  • Speakers: Julio Colon (Dell EMC), Lida He (Dell EMC), Magdy Salem (Dell EMC)
• The Good, Bad and Ugly: OpenStack Consumption Models
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 12:15pm-12:55pm
  • Speakers: VS Joshi (Dell EMC), Amar Kadadia (Mirantis), James Page (Canonical)
• Inspiring the Future of OpenStack through Diversity
  • Time/Day: 12:15-12:55
  • Speakers: Panelists: Xing Yang (Dell EMC), Carol Barrett (Intel), Holly Bazemore (Comcast)
• Git and Gerrit Lunch and Learn, Organized by The Women of OpenStack
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 1:05-2:00pm
  • Speakers: Tamara Johnston (Dell EMC) and Amy Marrich (Rackspace)
• Build the Artificial Intelligence Cloud - Provision and Manage TensorFlow cluster with OpenStack
  • Time/Day: Wed 26,  2:15-2:55pm
  • Speakers: Layne Peng (Dell EMC) and Accela Zhao (Dell EMC)
• Automating your manual test suite using Tempest plugin, Scenario tests and Rally
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 2:15-2:55pm
  • Speakers: David Paterson (Dell EMC) and Daniel Mellado (Red Hat)
• Dell EMC: Going Big with OpenStack and Open Networking
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 2:15-2:55
  • Speakers: Adnan Bhutta (Dell EMC)
• Lessons learnt while deploying Mirantis OpenStack on CEPH and ScaleIO
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 3:05-3:45
  • Speakers: Paul Roberts (Mirantis) and Jason Sturgeon (EMC)
• Reality check for OpenStack and CloudFoundry: Perfect Marriage or Divorce in the Making
  • Time/Day: Wed 3:05-3:45
  • Speakers: Magdy Salem (Dell EMC)
• Dell EMC: Accelerate the OpenStack RCA and leverage Kibana/ElasticSearch
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 3:55-4:35
  • Speakers: David Sanchez (Dell EMC) and Diego Casati (Dell EMC)
• Hadoop on OpenStack Cloud: The Elephant can fly!
  • Time/Day Wed 26, 5:05-5:45pm
  • Speakers: Nicholas Wakou (Dell EMC) and Arkady Kanevsky (Dell EMC)
• Dell EMC: Reconciling Infrastructure Limitations With DevOps Challenges
  • Time/Day: Wed 26, 5:55-6:35
  • Speakers: Christopher Logan (Dell EMC), Monty Taylor (Red Hat) Nigel kersten (Puppet), Ashish Nadkarni (IDC)
• Cinder Project Update
  • Time/Day: Thu 27, 11:00am-11:40am
  • Speakers: Xing Yang (Dell EMC), Sean McGinnis (Dell), Jay Bryant (IBM)
• Analyzing Performance in the Cloud: solving an elastic problem with a scientific approach
  • Time/Day: Thurs, 11:50-12:30
  • Speakers: Nicholas Wakou (Dell EMC) and Alex Krzos (Red Hat)
• Troubleshooting Neutron: Physical and Virtual Networks
  • Time/Day: Thu 27, 2:40- 3:20pm
  • Speakers: Diego Protta Casati (Dell EMC), Mohammad Itani (Dell EMC), Lida He (Dell EMC)
• Getting the Most Out of Rally for Improving Scaling Behavior
  • Time/Day: Thu 27, 4:40-5:20
  • Speaker: Magdy Salem (Dell EMC)

Earlier today, DELL EMC introduced the latest All-Flash offering in the VMAX All-Flash family. Now with three distinct models- the VMAX 250F, the VMAX 450F, and the VMAX 850F, the VMAX All Flash Arrays all share the trusted Dynamic Virtual Matrix architecture and HYPERMAX OS. The VMAX All-Flash products are specifically architected to meet the storage capacity and performance requirements of the All Flash Enterprise Data Center. The VMAX All Flash products are feature-rich All Flash offerings with specific capabilities designed to take advantage of the new higher capacity flash drives used in the densest configuration possible. The VMAX All Flash Arrays offer enterprise customers the trusted VMAX data services, the improved simplicity, capacity, and performance which their highly virtualized environments demand, while still meeting the economics of the more traditional storage workloads.

While the VMAX 250F was introduced October 10th, I was able to get a preview of the technology back at VMWorld 2016. I sat down in a highly secure room with Scott Delandy (@ScottDelandy) and Melissa Gurney (@SolutionsGeek) to get the details.

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When most people think traditional EMC, or Dell EMC, they think Storage. While that is about to change, the foundation of the modern data center starts with the right storage array. At VMWorld 2016, I had the opportunity to chat with Stephan Voss (@VossManVoss) Director of Technical Marketing, Dell EMC Core Technologies. We talked XtremIO, Vmax Unity and storage software. Software that brings functionality like iCDM (Integrated Copy Data Management), VMware enablement and application enablement.

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Together with Vmware, the introduction of the VxRail appliance family back in February marked the first joint product announcement where EMC and VMware engineers have worked side by side developing, testing and validating a fully integrated hyper converged appliance.

Add to that the addition of All-Flash Configuration in June combined with unprecedented customer demand, 6 months later #VxRailDelivers

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.

I caught up with Colin Galagher (@WorldC3), Sr. Director, Hyper Converged Infrastructure Marketing at Vmworld 2016, shortly before the Dell EMC merger and creation of Dell Technologies.

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VMworld 2016 provided the perfect opportunity to extend the Dell EMC Customer Corner. For the second installment, I was able to catch up with Jason Molitor, IT Infrastructure Architect for Ashley Furniture.

Jason leveraged Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure to address growth and stability challenges while supporting new applications and providing high availability all while moving data centers. Learn more this week on Dell EMC The Source Podcast live from VMworld 2016.

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Software Defined Storage (SDS) is defined as: An approach to data storage in which programming the controls storage-related tasks is decoupled from the physical storage hardware, providing the ability to manage policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware.

Dell EMC ScaleIO is a scalable and performant Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Solution for block storage which delivers public cloud agility with private cloud resiliency. It creates a server SAN from local server storage to deliver flexible, elastic and scalable performance and capacity on demand. ScaleIO is software, software that has been available as a free download since EMC World, May 2015 without capacity restrictions.  ScaleIO is an easy download for VMware, Linux and Windows here www.emc.com/getScaleIO.

While ScaleIO software solutions have been helping Dell EMC Customers deliver scalable, flexible block storage for traditional and cloud native workloads, combining the power of Dell EMC Scale IO software and Dell PowerEdge Server platform is an obvious next step.

The Dell EMC ScaleIO Ready Node is pre-configured and pre-qualified to run ScaleIO Software providing a software defined, all-flash storage foundation for your modern datacenter.

I sat down with Jyothi Swaroop (@jswaroop) and Jason Brown (@FelixNU98), Principal Product Marketing Manager, ScaleIO to get the latest on ScaleIO and the newly released Dell EMC ScaleIO ready node.

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The Dell EMC forum event in Dallas Texas, September 13th 2016 represented the first “Dell EMC” marketing event.  The evolution of the long standing EMC forum event services, a one-day free technology event allowing IT professionals to explore business trends, cloud directions, use cases and beast practices.

This year’s Dell EMC Forum theme is appropriately, “Let The Transformation Begin”.  With an outstanding ‘Keynote Speaker” and breakout tracks including Modernize infrastructure, Converged Systems, Workforce Transformation, Cloud Landscape, Big Data Analytics and Mainframe.  Each breakout track offered 6 unique sessions…  That’s 36 Breakout Sessions a Keynote and a Partner expo along with lunch, and cocktail reception!!  Not bad for a free event.

To find a Global Dell EMC Fourm event near you, visit www.dellemc.com/forum

The keynote Speaker for Dallas?  The one and only virtual geek and president of EMC Converged Product Solutions Division, Chad Sakac (@Sakacc)

I caught up with Chad right after his keynote, that interview, and the full Keynote address is this week Dell EMC The Source Podcast.

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