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2014 - holds a great prospect of being the best year for innovation in IT.  Growing acceptance for the 3rd platform era, thanks to Cloud, Big Data, Social and Mobile will be at the forefront of all discussions.  Here is the full coverage of what executives at EMC, VMware and RSA believe about 2014 :  [ View the story "Technology Predictions for 2014" on Storify ]

This EMC Engineering TechBook describes how the VMware vSphere platform works with EMC Symmetrix storage systems and software technologies.  TechBook: Using EMC Symmetrix Storage in VMware vSphere Environments from EMC Academic Alliance

This white paper discusses how VMware's vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration, also known as VAAI, can be used to offload perform various virtual machine operations on the EMC Symmetrix. White Paper: Using VMware Storage APIs for Array Integration with EMC Symmetrix from EMC Academic Alliance

I just loved the concept - Hear the Story, See the story .  As they define #EMCBlueprints as -  " EMC Blueprints is a new, innovative way of capturing the big ideas presented at EMC World.  While EMC's executives are giving their keynote addresses, artists trained in the practice of graphic recording will be producing visual transcripts of their talks. This involves listening to each talk, synthesizing the key ideas and recording them in a flow of images and text, all in real time. Hear the story.  See the story " Check them in detail on  http://pinterest.com/search/?q=EMCBlueprints  

In China, the amount of data created, replicated, and consumed each year will grow 24-fold between 2012 and 2020, according to the EMC-IDC Digital Universe 2020 study. Analyst Report: The Digital Universe in 2020 - China from EMC Academic Alliance

As we get closer to EMC World 2013, i would like to share some of my personal best technical sessions from 2012. We will spend the next few weeks reliving them one by one. Today, i'm pleased to share a session  on -  Converged Data Center: FCoE, iSCSI and the Future of Storage Networking This session explores the opportunities and challenges of using a single network to support both storage and networking. The Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and iSCSI (SCSI over TCP/IP) protocols offer two approaches for supporting storage over Ethernet. Standards, technologies and deployment scenarios for both protocols are covered, along with the future of storage networking technology. 

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 with SRDF SRA 5.1 provides workflow and business continuity and disaster restart process management for VMware vSphere. The software leverages storage array replication and communicates to replication management through a well-defined set of specifications. Using the SRDF Adapter with VMware Site Recovery Manager 5.1 from EMC Academic Alliance

We heard about Full Flash Storage and Pivotal initiative last year. In the Q4 2012 Financial Call, EMC gave some insight into its 2013 vision.  Technology drivers for 2013 EMC, VMware and Pivotal Initiatives key focus areas for 2013 More specifics will be available in the coming month.