Just a wrap-up post given I wrote 10 blog posts at EMC World 2014 - general sessions, keynotes, breakout sessions, and NDA items. Please note while I did post general notes from the NDA sessions, my longer notes are not posted - please email me (amiller at varrow dot com) or catch me on Twitter or … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Blog Posts Reference

This EMC World was different from previous conferences for me as I spent almost as much time in NDA sessions as regular breakout sessions. The good = hearing lots of roadmap info and being able give input. The bad = I can’t blog as much. 😉 Varrow side-note: wouldn’t you want to work with a … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – NDA Session Notes

Cool intro video….as you’d expect. “Please welcome Agent J & Agent H” - Jeremy Burton and some other folks (young man as well). Some T-Shirt shooting….fun. Jeremy Burton - “If you can’t download an app from the App Store, please leave now as you won’t understand anything.” New world is driven by deployment of applications … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Area 53 Keynote

Meeting with John Roese, CTO of EMC - early prolific blogger. With EMC for the last 1-2 years — with Huawei before then, then Broadcom, Nortel, etc. Is the first executive in Canada to have a non-supervised blog - around the same time as Jonathan Schwartz. Exec in Nortel came to him and asked him … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Social Village Meetup with John Roese, EMC CTO

Live blog…as always, I don’t necessarily expect new content in a keynote but do always find it interesting what EMC chooses to focus on whey have a huge audience (12,00 onsite  Jonathan Martin - Chief Marketing Officer - taking the stage. 2,761 people have done the Water Walk to raise money for charity. Now discussing … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Keynote – Gelsinger & Maritz

Note: I’ll be putting up a separate DSSD post later tonight…most info I’ve seen on it so far was in Area 52. Got here a bit late…during VNXe demo. First thing I heard was Chad Sakac joking about his height…the VNXe is small but powerful. 😉 Summary - this is the most comprehensive Area 52 … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Area 52 Keynote

Overheard before sessions - customers of EPIC Healthcare make up 3-4% of EMC’s storage revenues. Summary = Pre-built, Pre-tested for Oracle, Single contact for all support, Extreme Performance for OLTP & BI, Best TCO with FAST and multi-tiering strategy, Best data proaction and availability (T10 PI (DIF), D@RE, VMAX local and remote replications), Easy to … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Session Notes – VMAX & Oracle High Performance Solutions

Manuvir Das - Engineering Vikram Bhambri - Product Management Summary = EMC is emphasizing that ECS is really just to enable ViPR — not meant for other stuff, not meant to compete with non-storage companies. Lots of ViPR data but did get to some ECS hardware configs at the end (screenshots below). ~~~~~~~ Starting by … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Session Notes – ECS Appliance – World’s First Web-Scale Storage Infrastructure for Enterprise

Got here late….tried for VPLEX + ViPR session but arrived 15 minute late and they were done the content already (hour long session but only 15 minutes of content). This turned out to be mostly a review of ViPR…very little Project Nile. Came in partway through the ViPR content... VPLEX & RP Enhancements ViPR Hardening … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Session Notes – ViPR & Project Nile

Summary = I don't necessarily expect new content at a keynote (that's Area 52 & 53) but I find it interesting what themes EMC chooses to focus on when they have an audience of 12,000 onsite and many more online. More content to come here... Strobe lights and lots of quotes from customers about EMC … Continue reading EMC World 2014 – Keynote – Tucci & Goulden