At the EMC World Conference the CEOs of Dell and soon to be acquired EMC, to be called EMC Dell, talked about the company’s priorities and the synergies that could be explored and developed by a private company. EMC talked about its push to modernize the data center and find the right balance of support for its existing on-premise enterprise business and off-premise cloud storage.

Announcements on the first day of EMC world included EMC’s declaration that 2016 is the Year of All-Flash for primary storage. As part of this effort EMC introducing a new member of its all-flash portfolio with the EMC Unity family of storage arrays targeted to small and medium-size IT deployments. This family is available in all-flash, hybrid, converged and software-defined configurations. The company said this product is designed to help customers make an affordable and simple transition from hard disk drive to flash memory and supports file and block access in a 2U footprint. The EMC Unity family allows all-flash performance and cloud-like interfaces for under $18,000.

EMC is working to support their established enterprise storage systems with the growing use of cloud storage. The Virtustream Storage Cloud is EMCs approach to provide an off-premise cloud to support their on-premise enterprise hybrid cloud storage. Virtustream offers a way to include cloud storage as an extension of EMC on-premise storage with managed services over on-premise and off-premise storage. The company is also building object-oriented cloud native on-premise products. Using the Pivotal Cloud Foundry should also allow cloud tiering and archiving to the public cloud as shown below.

EMC’s MyService360 uses EMC’s internal data lake and provides a cloud-based dashboard providing visibility into the health and status of a customer’s entire EMC data center environment. EMC’s Enterprise Copy Data Management (eCDM) extends EMC’s Copy Data Management portfolio to help customers reduce the costs of storing and managing multiple copies of data and making sure data is stored in the appropriate storage tier.

The EMC ViPR Controller 3.0 allows bridging traditional and native storage environments. The current version supports over 50 EMC and third party storage platforms.

By: DocMemory
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