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  At EMC World, EMC announced the general availability of a Virtual VNX storage environment that deploys on VMware vSphere -  vVNX Community Edition. The vVNX Community Edition (also referred to as vVNX) provides a flexible storage alternative for test and development environments. Users are able to quickly provision a vVNX on general purpose server hardware, which can result in reduced infrastructure costs and a quicker rate of deployment. Both existing and new VNX users can benefit from the vVNX. Existing VNX users are able to utilize existing third-party server hardware in their test/dev environments, while new and curious users can use vVNX to try out newer functionality as well as APIs before purchasing a VNXe or VNX. You can obtain the vVNX on EMC Product Download page, available on emc.com     

AppSync Fundamentals Provides an overview of EMC AppSync 1.5 architecture, features, supported applications, service plans, installation, reporting, and administration. Intended for administrators, architects, support engineers, and end users. Atmos Fundamentals Provides insight to Atmos features, functions, and capabilities and how Atmos can be used as a cloud storage solution. Intended for anyone responsible for selling, installing, supporting, or managing EMC Atmos. Connectrix Fundamentals Provides an introduction to the EMC Connectrix family of products and includes details on how Connectrix products are used to build Storage Area Networks. Intended for those positioning, designing, deploying, managing and supporting a solution using Connectrix products. Elastic Cloud Storage Fundamentals This course provides a high level overview of the EMC Elastic Cloud Storage solution covering basic features and functions, use cases, and deployment configurations including a ...

EMC Corporation   is getting into the MOOC game. It's first foray into the market for “massive open online courses” is with a 4 weeks course on  Data Lakes for Big Data  and will be avialable from May 12, 2015.  Here are some of the details What will the course cover - This free, open, online, interactive course will expose you to the value, opportunity, and insights that Big Data can provide. It highlights the Federation Business Data Lake as an integrated solution that stores and provides access to Big Data for real-time, rapid analytics and predictive modeling Duration : Spread across 4 weeks and will require approximately two to three hours of work per week Who can attend : There are no specific pre-requisites expected to attend this course. However, it is ideal If you are a decision maker or influencer keen to learn and define your organization’s big data strategy...

EMC Federation members EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal, VMware and VCE have today announced the Federation Business Data Lake . The Federation Business Data Lake Solution makes it easy to deploy a Business Data Lake. Core products from the EMC Federation of Companies, EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware, provide the core functionality of the Federation Business Data Lake meeting the critical functional needs - Store, Analyze, Surface and Act.  The Federation Business Data Lake is a fully engineered solution that can be rapidly and automatically provisioned, enabling IT organizations to lead the needs of the business. The analytics layer is completely virtualized with VMware running on Vblocks with predefined analytics use cases and automated provisioning and configuration. EMC Isilon provides the Data Lake Storage Foundation, delivering the ideal balance of capacity and performance. The analytics layer is comprised of the Pivotal Big Data Sui...

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Big Data , Virtualization , and Cloud Computing offer increased efficiency, agility, and flexibility.  At the same time, the digital landscape is growing increasingly more complex, making the need for a threat-resistant trusted infrastructure more important than ever. As security concerns create challenges for IT from every angle, businesses and organizations need Trusted IT. In the new Big Idea Video Series,  Patricia Florissi narrates a graphically facilitated interpretation of Why Trust Matters, a Security Perspective. 

This white paper describes how modernizing aging application portfolios and transforming legacy systems can create business advantage. White Paper: Application Modernization from EMC Academic Alliance

In the United States, the amount of data created, replicated, and consumed each year will double every three years through the end of the decade, according to the EMC-IDC Digital Universe 2020 study.  The Digital Universe in 2020 - United States from EMC Academic Alliance

This IDC Country Brief covers Western Europe, in which the amount of data created, replicated, and consumed annually will double every two and a half years through the end of the decade, according to the 2012 EMC-IDC Digital Universe study.  The Digital Universe in 2020 - Western Europe from EMC Academic Alliance

In India, the amount of data created, replicated, and consumed each year will grow an amazing 23-fold through the end of the decade, according to the EMC-IDC Digital Universe 2020 study. The Digital Universe in 2020 - India from EMC Academic Alliance

Following #FLASHNEXT ,lets try to summarize the technological advancements made in Flash -                                          Hybrid Arrays : Storage systems with a variable percentage of flash,with automated data placement (hot data on flash and cold data on HDD) to provide a balance of (usually not the highest) performance and (often the lowest) price. These are best for users’ persistent and predictable data that does much of the basic daily work. All-flash Arrays :  Combines the power of flash and the capabilities of enterprise storage Server Flash as Local Storage : PCIe flash card (that uses MLC media)  deployed in the server as a local storage device for application acceleration. By storing data locally on the  server, improves the performance of application reads and writes by reducing latency and  accelerating throughp...

As a follow up from my earlier post on  International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Analytics #ICCBDA 2013 , we are pleased to invite you to Day 1 event - EMC Academic Forum 2013 -

RSA today released a Security Brief asserting that  The dissolution of traditional defensive perimeters coupled with attackers’ abilities to circumvent traditional security systems requires organizations to adopt an intelligence driven security model that is more risk-aware, contextual, and agile. Intelligence-driven security relies on big data analytics. Big data encompasses both the breadth of sources and the information depth needed for programs to assess risks accurately and to defend against illicit activity and advanced cyber threats. Within the next two years, we predict big data analytics will disrupt the status quo in most information security product segments, including SIEM; network monitoring; user authentication and authorization; identity management; fraud detection; and governance, risk & compliance. In the next three to five years, we predict data analytics tools will further evolve to enable a range of advanced predictive capabilities and automat...

Wishing the best for a better 2013

The 6th edition of Digital Universe Study was released today. The EMC-sponsored study by IDC, measures and characterizes all the digital data created, replicated, and consumed worldwide in a single year. The 2012 report projects the growth of the Digital Universe through 2020.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Here are some of the key findings from the same -   New IDC Digital Universe study, “ Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East ”¹ (sponsored by EMC) finds that only a tiny fraction of the world’s Big Data potential is being realized, though the amount of useful data is expanding.  IDC projects that the digital universe will reach 40 zettabytes (ZB) by 2020, an amount that exceeds previous forecasts by 5 ZBs, resulting in a 50-fold growth from the beginning of 2010. This year’s study marks the first time IDC was able to capture where the information in the digital un...

In the legacy analytics process, data scientists face challenges in accessing and sharing the right data. GreenplumChorus helps foster a complete data science ecosystem with best-of-breed analytics applications. As a social platform for collaborative data science, Greenplum Chorus users can increase productivity, decrease administrative burdens on IT infrastructures, and get better visibility and faster access to data through a single tool. EMC recently released the Greenplum Chorus source code under an Apache open source license through the  OpenChorus  Project. The OpenChorus Project will speed innovation and adoption of collaborative data science practices, helping organizations to drive greater business insight and economic value from Big Data. Making OpenChorus accessible to Data Scientists Greenplum and Kaggle joined forces to tackle the short supply and heavy demand for data scientists with an integration between the Kaggle data science c...

Big data  (also spelled Big Data) is a general term used to describe the voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data a company creates -- data that would take too much time and cost too much money to load into a relational database for analysis. Although Big data doesn't refer to any specific quantity, the term is often used when speaking about petabytes and exabytes of data. To clarify matters, the three Vs of volume, velocity and variety are commonly used to characterize different aspects of big data. Big data is being enabled by inexpensive storage, a proliferation of sensor and data capture technology, increasing connections to information via the cloud and virtualized storage infrastructures, and innovative software and analysis tools. Big data is not a "thing" but instead a dynamic/activity that crosses many IT borders. IDC defines it this way:  Big data technologies describe a new generation of...

EMC Education Services  has invested on addressing the widening knowledge gap in the industry - to enable non-EMC users, as well as  university students , to take advantage of the storage technology “ open ” curriculum to build a successful career in this high-growth industry.  As a step towards addressing the growing storage skill gap,  Information Storage and Management   course was launched. Over the years, the industry has transformed from a  classical to virtualized to  cloud environments, and so have the technologies enabling them. Keeping in mind these changes , EMC recently updated the course and launched a  new version titled  Information Storage and Management v2 .  The course gives an insight into data center key elements, intelligent storage systems,  storage networking technologies, and various business continuity options – along  with security and management of a storage infrastructure....

“ The Human Face of Big Data ,” the latest groundbreaking, globally crowdsourced initiative from Rick Smolan, the creator of the “Day in the Life” series. The project, made possible through primary sponsorship from EMC, is based on the premise that the real-time visualization of data collected by satellites, and by billions of sensors, RFID tags, and GPS-enabled cameras and smartphones around the world, is enabling humanity to sense, measure, understand and affect aspects of our existence in ways our ancestors could never have imagined in their wildest dreams.  The multifaceted project kicks off on September 25 with an eight-day “Measure Our World” event inviting people around the world to share and compare their lives in real time through an innovative smartphone app. The project also includes “Mission Control” events in New York, Singapore and London; “Data Detectives,” a global student initiative being conducted in conjunction with the TED organization; a stunning large-...