In 2009, Wikibon projected that flash would be the lower cost alternative for active data. Figure 1 shows Wikibon’s technology projection for pure capacity data. It shows that flash (the blue line) will become a lower cost media than disk (the red line) for almost all storage in 2016, as scale-out storage technologies enable higher…
The Constraints Of Disk Technology On Application Design When magnetic drum technology was first introduced, access time to data was as fast as the compute technology of its day. The major components were magnetic heads and revolving magnetic media. Compute and persistent storage were balanced, with ten microseconds for compute and ten microseconds for access…
This is the second post in our Meet the Leaders series, which provides insight into what drives Dell EMC channel executives. Missed the first post? Catch up with John Byrne, Dell EMC President of Global Channels, here. What is your current role/area of responsibility? I’m immensely proud and privileged to lead our Channel EMEA Team—a fantastic…
Over the last few months as VxRail has taken off, VxRack SDDC has been launched, the Dell EMC position on the XC platform has become more clear – and finally as people have internalized that HCI and CI (VxBlock) will coexist for years… I’ve started to get a question that is a real head-scratcher for…
As I have told you in the past, we like to drink our own Champagne at Amazon. Practically speaking, this means that we make use of our own services, tools, and applications as part of our jobs, and that we supply the development teams with feedback if we have an idea for an improvement or…
This article was written on February 2017 by Eric Slack, senior analyst, Evaluator Group, Inc. An Evaluator Group TCO Analysis Comparing AWS and VxRail For many companies the appeal of the public cloud is very real. For tech start-ups, the cloud may be their only option, since many don’t have the capital or expertise to…
Dell EMC The Source Episode #77 Cloud has moved from the latest buzz word to a movement. It’s vital to both IT and Digital Transformation. Dell EMC Customers are turning to Cloud for Application Deployments on a regular basis; but as it turns out, a cloud is really an operating model not a place. Clouds…
Executive Spotlight Q&A – Daniel K Österbergh Area Vice President Channel & Alliances, EMEA, ServiceNow ServiceMatters: Welcome Daniel. Can you tell us a bit about why you are so excited to be at ServiceNow? Daniel K Österbergh: I joined ServiceNow last month after tenures at Avaya Inc. and EMC. I’ve followed ServiceNow very closely for…
I mentioned in this post that we just passed the one year anniversary of VxRail, and it is cooking. 8,000+ nodes. 100K cores. 65+ PBs of storage. 70+ countries. And we’re just getting started. We’ve resolved some of the “we can’t ship them fast enough” issues. Believe it or not, we still have some configurations…
Reserved Instances allow AWS customers to receive a significant discount on their EC2 usage (up to 75% when compared to On-Demand pricing), along with capacity reservation when the RIs are purchased for use in a specific Availability Zone (AZ). Late last year we made Reserved Instances more flexible with the launch of Regional RIs that…