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