EMC is looking to do for storage what VMware did for servers: Make assets easier to pool and move around.
At EMC World Monday, the company outlined its plans and products for virtual storage infrastructure. In a nutshell, the movement is on to be able to pool storage, share it over distance and cut through the physical limitations of data (having it stored in one location over another).
To that end EMC is rolling out a portfolio of products dubbed VPlex, which an effort to pool storage across multiple data centers and swap information across long distances. This model would fall under the private cloud model where data is pooled and shared across a company. For instance, a backup data center in Oregon could take over batch processing for its sister site in Secaucus, N.J.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/emc-launches-vplex-eyes-teleporting-petabytes-globally/34231
EMC is looking to do for storage what VMware did for servers: Make assets easier to pool and move around.
At EMC World Monday, the company outlined its plans and products for virtual storage infrastructure. In a nutshell, the movement is on to be able to pool storage, share it over distance and cut through the physical limitations of data (having it stored in one location over another).
To that end EMC is rolling out a portfolio of products dubbed VPlex, which an effort to pool storage across multiple data centers and swap information across long distances. This model would fall under the private cloud model where data is pooled and shared across a company. For instance, a backup data center in Oregon could take over batch processing for its sister site in Secaucus, N.J.
Read more: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/emc-launches-vplex-eyes-teleporting-petabytes-globally/34231
