Many of you realize this is a big week in San Francisco as over 21,000 people descend on Moscone Center for VMWorld 2012. If you want to take a little of your day to immerse yourself, here is a link to two live video streams from the show(http://bit.ly/PVr6U7).
VMWorld is an interesting show, when it comes to virtualization there really has been no notable competition to date from the field. So when you go to VMWorld, everyone is there. It's a true conglomeration of the industry. There are always a few shinning stars at the show that seem to get the most attention. I thought in 2011 EMC showed well and had a powerful and humorous presence (vodgeball, come on what's more fun than that?). However, EMC is poised to shadow its former glory with its current self.
EMC at VMWorld 2012 will be the vendor to beat for overall presence and frankly substantive innovation featured at the show. Tuesday, 2nd day of the show will see a barrage of announcements, some of which I highlight below. Keep your ear out, walk the floor, watch the videos and find the passion to abstract some apps from their physical chains in 2012-13.
Late last week Wikibon published their annual survey and EMC was named "Best Storage Across All Categories for VMware vSphere Environment". This 2nd year running.
VDP is an advanced, enterprise-proven deduplication backup solution that SMBs and departmental users can manage from the new vSphere Web Client.
With Avamar technology tightly integrated into the VMware platform, users benefit from industry-leading deduplication, full support for Changed Block Tracking for both backup and recovery, and flexible self-service restores.
VDP establishes a foundation within vSphere from which to launch additional backup and recovery capabilities over time, so that VMware data protection can scale to meet future customer requirements.
Solution delivers in-line deduplication of cached data—an industry first.
New EMC Storage Resource Management (SRM) Suite ( http://yhoo.it/OmSmct )delivers a comprehensive application-to-storage analysis, breaking down IT department silos for common insight into service level management, priorities and tasks.
Works with all EMC storage and third party storage arrays for both file and block.
Helps proactively identify bottlenecks, balance workloads and ID root cause to problems.
The CVDs published are Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX for Microsoft Hyper-V Architectures and Cisco Solutions for EMC VSPEX for VMware vSphere 5.0 Architectures.
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I stink… Buried this week didn't get a part 2 out. I'll look to provide some follow up next week.