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Dell EMC Attacks Midmarket With New Data Protection, VMware-Optimized Appliance

@DellEMC launched a new integrated data protection appliance Wednesday to drive channel sales in the midmarket with a 2U form factor optimized for @VMware environments. "There is a huge amount of headroom here for partners to grow in the midmarket. We see this as a way to reach a broader customer base," said @BethPhalen, president and general manager of Dell EMC's Data Protection division, in an interview with CRN. "We made a simplified selling motion that partners can talk about easily with customers to deploy and install – a 2U appliance that takes less than two hours to install." Dell EMC's new DP4400 offers converged data protection, backup, deduplication, replication and recovery, as well as disaster recovery and long-term data retention to the cloud. The appliance is in a dense 2U platform powered by Dell's PowerEdge 14th Generation servers optimized for VMware environments with integration that enables administrators to perform backup and recovery tasks directly from native vSphere. [Related: 5 Things Dell Partners Need To Know About Dell Going Public] "Our midsize customers and even the smaller customers are going to take a hard look now at this DP4400, particularly if they're interested in a low-cost data protection appliance type of solution," said Scott Winslow, president of Winslow Technology Group, a Waltham, Mass- based Dell EMC and VMware partner, ranked No. 429 on CRN's 2018 Solution Provider 500 list. Winslow said his customers are increasingly seeking more integration solutions that are operationally easy to use, exactly what the DP4400 is geared toward. "If you look at something like a hyper-converged market, that's an integrated solution and operationally easy to use. We're seeing the same trend in the backup space and data management. So the DP4400 is capitalizing on that same trend," he said. "With the DP4400, you get a combination of data protection, software, compute, storage, analytics and it's in a very small form factor – this is what customers are asking for."
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ExaGrid Voted "Enterprise Backup Storage Vendor of the Year"

@ExaGrid ®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, today announced that it has been voted Storage Magazine’s “Enterprise Backup Storage Vendor of the Year” at its annual awards ceremony – the Storries XV – in London, UK. Winners are determined by public vote, so receipt of this award is especially important; it heralds the collective voices of ExaGrid’s customers and partners, and further validates the excellence of ExaGrid’s differentiated product architecture and superior customer service model. ”We’re honored to accept this award from Storage Magazine on behalf of many thousands of voters,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “Success to us means happy IT customers that no longer worry about the myriad of backup problems that used to keep them awake at night because they are now meeting SLAs, they have a tested disaster recovery strategy, their backup window remains the same and doesn’t expand as data grows. Furthermore, with increasing numbers of organizations migrating to virtualized infrastructures, customers need just-in-time recovery by being able to boot VMs in seconds to minutes. Only ExaGrid can meet all of these requirements and much more.” The Storries XV awards ceremony took place in London, where ExaGrid was pleased to host reseller partners Arrow, Computacenter, Fortem IT, S3 Consulting, and Softcat. Fortem IT’s CEO Steve Timothy said, “Congratulations to ExaGrid on the well-deserved Enterprise Backup award. We look forward to our continued joint success.” ExaGrid is the only second generation backup storage vendor that has eliminated the compute challenges inherent to backup storage with data deduplication. ExaGrid’s ingest performance is six times faster – and restores/VM boots are up to 20 times faster – than its closest competitor. Unlike the first generation vendors that only add storage capacity as data grows, ExaGrid adds compute with capacity to preserve existing throughput speeds and ensure that the backup window remains fixed in length. The EX63000E appliance is ExaGrid’s most powerful model, providing capacity for a 63TB full backup. Leveraging the strength of its scale-out architecture, up to 32 EX63000E appliances can be combined in a single scale-out system, allowing for a 2PB full backup. The EX63000E has a maximum ingest rate of 13.5TB/hr. per appliance, so with 32 EX63000Es in a single system, the maximum ingest rate is 432TB/hr., which is 6 times the ingest performance of the Dell EMC Data Domain 9800 with DD Boost. ExaGrid’s scalability allows customers to expand their systems over time, easily adding what they need as they need it. In addition, appliances of any size or age can be mixed and matched in a single system, and since ExaGrid does not “end of life” products, future customer support and maintenance is guaranteed. One of @ExaGrid ’s key architectural differentiators is its unique “landing zone” that stores the most recent backups in their full undeduplicated form for restore, recovery, and VM boot performance that is up to 20 times faster than inline deduplication appliances such as @DellEMC @DataDomain ’s, which only store deduplicated data. ExaGrid’s landing zone can complete a VM boot in seconds to single-digit minutes versus hours for appliances that store only deduplicated data. All other solutions deduplicate data inline, which does allow for storage savings and replicated bandwidth savings; however, these systems break backup windows up front and particularly over time as data grows. In addition, they are painfully slow for restores, offsite tape copies, and VM boots because the data has to be rehydrated for every restore request.

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Dell EMC Data Domain: Product Overview and Insight

Company description:  Originally an independent company, @DataDomain was acquired by @EMC in 2009. In the past two years, EMC itself was acquired by @Dell. Both acquisitions have added to the breadth and enterprise feature set of Data Domain backup and data protection tools. Dell Technologies is an independent company based in Round Rock, Texas. @DellEMC services customers across 180 countries – including 98 percent of the Fortune 500 – with a portfolio that spans from edge to core to cloud. Product description: Data Domain offers scalable, cloud-ready protection storage for backup, archive, long-term cloud retention and modern disaster recovery. It incorporates delivers deduplication technology that speeds up backup up to 50% and reduces network utilization up to 98% in addition to delivering a low cost-to-protect by reducing storage requirements. Featuring the Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture, it guards against data integrity issues with inline data verification, continuous fault detection and self-healing. Data Domain supports a wide ecosystem of enterprise and homegrown applications. Dell EMC, however, provides several other enterprise backup and data protection products such as Dell EMC Networker and Dell EMC Avamar software. Each could be given their own position within this guide.  Key Features: ·  Reduce storage requirements by 10 – 55x with variable-length deduplication ·  Back up directly from a wide range of enterprise apps or primary storage ·  Natively tier deduplicated data to the cloud for long-term retention ·  Copy backed-up VMs to the public cloud (AWS) for disaster recovery Insight and Analysis: IDC named Data Domain as the top purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) with more than 55% market share. ESG said: “Dell EMC has expanded the Data Domain platform from simply a component of a data protection infrastructure to the basis of an ecosystem that includes production storage, backup vendors, archive vendors, and plug-in accelerants for applications. Data Domain … reduces the cost of protection capacity by 57% to 81% compared to Data Domain environments with competitive backup software.’ This means that the full benefits of Data Domain are best used in conjunction with other Dell EMC backup tools. Those using backup tools from competitors may not realize the same results. Implementation: Dell EMC Data Domain can serve as the target backup storage with both Dell EMC backup software as well as software from competitors. Delivery: Appliance or as virtual software. Markets and Use Cases: Data Domain can protect data in physical, virtual and cloud environments, as well as any vertical segment. It is used in enterprise, SMB and ROBO environments. Agents: With Data Domain, you can backup directly to protection storage without the use of an agent. When using Data Domain with Dell EMC Data Protection software or other backup applications from a competitor, an agent is required. Pricing: Pricing starts at less than $9,000.

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ExaGrid, Hyper-Converged Secondary Storage for Backup Leader, Reports Record Q1 Bookings and Revenue for Q1-2018

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, today announced record Q1 bookings and revenue for Q1 2018. ExaGrid grew at a rate of 20% over the same quarter of the prior year, continuing its trend of progressive growth at a faster rate than that of the overall market and resulting market share gain. ExaGrid continues its up-market trajectory, attracting increasing numbers of enterprise customers with hundreds of terabytes to petabytes of data to be backed up. ExaGrid reports record Q1 bookings and revenue for Q1-2018 as company continues focus on sale of larger systems to enterprise IT data centers Tweet this “ExaGrid posted another record first quarter due to the company’s continued focus on execution of our up-market strategy. In parallel to this up-market progression, ExaGrid’s average selling price for initial system purchases continues to rise,” said Bill Andrews, CEO and President of ExaGrid. In addition to record Q1 bookings and revenue, ExaGrid: began shipping its EX63000E that scales to a 2PB full backup in a single system with an ingest rate of over 400TB per hour and supports a replicated second site with storage of up to 4PB for disaster recovery and long-term retention, making it the largest and fastest system on the market; announced a new strategic alliance with HYCU for purpose-built support of Nutanix environments using VMware or AHV hypervisors; and received recognition as a “finalist” for a Network Computing award and Storage Magazine’s Product of the Year. “Backup data is growing at over 30% year-over-year in larger IT organizations. They are continuing to hit the wall with inline deduplication with scale-up storage architectures that result in slower backups, slower restores, and an ever expanding backup window,” Andrews said. Unlike first generation deduplication solutions that were either built into a backup application media server or into a scale-up storage appliance, ExaGrid delivers the backup industry’s only true scale-out architecture with data deduplication. It provides hard-dollar savings and also improves backup and restore performance by combining zone-level deduplication, adaptive deduplication, global deduplication, and a unique landing zone. As the market matures, customers are understanding the performance degradation that data deduplication can have on backup unless a solution is intentionally architected to prevent any such impact. All deduplication solutions reduce storage and WAN bandwidth to a degree, but only ExaGrid solves the three inherent compute problems to achieve faster backups, restores, and VM boots by leveraging its unique landing zone, adaptive deduplication, and scale-out architecture. “First generation deduplication solutions can be cost prohibitive for backup storage and are also slow for backups, restores, and VM boots, which is why over 80% of @ExaGrid ’s newly-acquired customers are replacing @DellEMC @Data Domain, @HP StoreOnce, @Commvault Deduplication, and the @Veritas 5200/5300 series of appliances with ExaGrid,” said @BillAndrews. ExaGrid is the only second generation backup storage vendor that has eliminated the three compute challenges inherent to backup storage with data deduplication. All backup storage vendors reduce storage and bandwidth to varying degrees but provide slow ingest rates because they perform data deduplication ‘inline.’ In addition, because they only store deduplicated data, restore speeds and VM boots are also very slow. ExaGrid’s ingest rate is three times faster - and restores/VM boots are up to 20 times faster - than its closest competitor. Unlike the first generation vendors that only add capacity as data grows, ExaGrid appliances add compute with capacity, ensuring that the backup window remains fixed in length. Only ExaGrid uses a scale-out architecture with a unique loading zone, which holistically addresses all of the scalability and performance challenges of backup storage.

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Dell EMC unveils latest Data Domain appliance

@DellEMC 's latest addition to the @DataDomain line targets SMBs and enterprises with remote offices. The system includes #DataDomainBoost technology and #cloud #tiering #software.

Despite the trend swinging toward integrated data protection appliances, Dell EMC today expanded the line of Data Domain appliances that helped make disk-based backup popular.

Dell EMC launched the DD3300 appliance, the new entry-level version of its platform that does inline deduplication for disk backup, archiving and disaster recovery. The Data Domain appliance targets small to midsize organizations and large companies with remote and branch offices. The new system will replace the Dell EMC Data Domain 2200.

The DD3300 provides a maximum throughput of up to 4.2 TB per hour and 7 TB per hour with the Data Domain Boost technology. The Data Domain appliance can hold between 200 TB and 1.6 PB of logical capacity and up to 32 TB of usable capacity. Those numbers compare to the DD2200 appliance that protects up to 860 TB of user data and supports 4.7 TB an hour throughput.

The 2U appliance also has the DD Cloud Tier technology that does native tiering of long-term retention data to the public, private and hybrid cloud. With cloud tiering, the system can handle up to 4.8 PB of logical capacity and up to 32 TB of usable storage. It uses SAS drives and the system uses intelligent, variable-level deduplication.

"This enables smaller IT environments to extend to the cloud for long-term data retention," said Richa Dhanda, Dell EMC's director of product marketing for data protection. "The cloud tiering is offered on all our models, [but] this is the first time we are offering cloud tiering on our entry-level model."

Data Domain appliance gives deduplication a boost

The new Data Domain appliance supports dual-disk parity RAID 6, Data Domain encryption, Data Domain Extended Retention Lock software and Data Domain Virtual Tape Library over Fibre Channel. It supports NFS v3 over TCP and CIFS and Data Domain Boost over 1 GbE or 10 GbE or Fibre Channel, as well as NDMP Tape Server.

DD Boost software is designed to offload part of the Data Domain deduplication process to a backup server or application client. That prevents the Data Domain disk array from having to carry the full burden of the dedupe workload. The software is designed to increase the backup speed while decreasing the network bandwidth needs. This is particularly advantageous when backups are being written to an off-site Data Domain system over a wide-area network.

The new Data Domain appliance supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, the IBM Cloud and the Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage.

The new Data Domain appliance supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, the IBM Cloud and the Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage.

Data Domain was a data deduplication pioneer that helped popularize the move from tape to disk for backup. EMC acquired Data Domain for $2.1 billion in 2009, and the platform has helped EMC -- and now Dell EMC -- hold the disk backup market share lead for years, although its share is shrinking as integrated appliances start to take hold.

@Dell EMC in 2017 launched the @DataDomain Integrated Data Protection Appliance ( #IDPA ) with Data Domain and other Dell EMC #backup software integrated. The IDPA is more in line with integrated appliances from rivals @Veritas, @Commvault and newcomers @Cohesity and @Rubrik, while the standard Data Domain appliance requires customers to use separate backup software. But despite the move into integrated appliances, the traditional DD appliances remain Dell EMC's flagship backup target products.

Along with the new DD3300, the Data Domain platform includes the midsize DD6300 and DD6800, and the DD9300 and DD9800 for large enterprises.

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EMC admin? Plug this hole before the holidays

Because we haven't set fired SMBv1 into the Sun By Richard Chirgwin Posted in Security, 21st December 2017 04:56 GMT @DellEMC has patched an #SMBv1 bug in its @DataDomain #Deduplication and #DataProtection software. It's probably worth your time running the patch in, if you can, because as the advisory explained, it's a memory overflow that could open a system to remote code execution (RCE). CVE-2017-14385 affects quite a few versions of the system: the Data Domain DD OS 5.7 family prior to 5.7.5.6; 6.0 versions prior to 6.0.2.9; 6.1 versions prior to 6.1.0.21; all versions of Data Domain Virtual Edition in 2.0, 3.0 prior to 3.0 SP2 Update 1, and 3.1 prior to 3.1 Update 2. In its notice, Cisco expanded on the bug's impact: “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SMBv1 packets to a targeted system. A successful exploit could trigger a memory overflow condition that the attacker could leverage to execute arbitrary code on the system. In addition, the attacker could also leverage this vulnerability to shut down the SMB service and Active Directory authentication, resulting in a DoS condition.” If you can't patch immediately, external traffic to the system can be blocked at the firewall. Patches are available to registered users here. ®

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ExaGrid Voted “Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year” in 2017 SVC Awards

WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--#ExaGrid®, a leading provider of #hyperconverged #secondarystorage ( #HCSS) for #backup with #data #deduplication, today announced that its EX series of appliances has been honored by SVC with its 2017 Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year award. Winners were announced at the SVC Awards Gala Ceremony on November 23 in London, UK. “We are honored to have been chosen as the 2017 SVC Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year” Tweet this The SVC Awards recognize the products, projects and services – as well as honor companies and teams – operating with excellence in the cloud, virtualization, and storage sectors. The SVC Awards also recognize the achievements of end users, channel partners, and vendors. The ExaGrid EX series of appliances is a hyper-converged secondary storage system for backup that revolutionizes how organizations back up and protect data. ExaGrid’s scale-out backup storage systems deduplicate and store data from over 25 industry-leading backup software applications. ExaGrid’s backup storage appliances have been architected from the ground up specifically for backup storage to address today’s demanding backup requirements and are optimized for superior backup and recovery performance for both physical and virtual IT environments. “We are honored to have been chosen as the 2017 SVC Hyper-converged Backup and Recovery Product of the Year,” said Bill Andrews, CEO of ExaGrid. “We believe it reflects ExaGrid’s position as the premier hyper-converged secondary storage solution for backup that as part of its very architecture solves the myriad of performance challenges inherent to deduplication for backups, restores, and VM boots. ExaGrid’s unique landing zone and scale-out backup storage is 3 times faster for ingest and over 20 times faster for restores and VM boots than its closest competitor. In addition, ExaGrid is the only solution that provides a fixed-length backup window as data grows. With ExaGrid, IT can have the fastest backups, restores, and VM boots; a fixed-length backup window; and the ability to easily scale their systems, so they simply buy what they need as they need it, all at the lowest cost up front and over time. ExaGrid eliminates forklift upgrades and product obsolescence.” According to Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications, publishers of the Digitalisation World stable of titles, “Nominations for the SVC Awards 2017 were of very high quality and there was also a significant increase in the numbers of votes cast. The SVC Awards recognize the users, manufacturers and suppliers operating in the storage, virtualization and cloud sectors and are voted for by the readers of our wide range of print and online publications. All finalists did well in reaching the high standard shortlist, but ExaGrid was the clear winner in its category.” ExaGrid’s EX40000E is the largest in the company’s product line and scales from a 40TB full backup up to a 1PB full backup by combining 25 EX40000Es in a single scale-out system. The ingest rate of a full single system is 200TB/hr., which is 3 times the ingest performance of the EMC Data Domain 9800 with DD Boost. ExaGrid’s unique landing zone not only allows for the fastest backups but also for the fastest restores and VM boots as ExaGrid maintains the most recent backup in its full undeduplicated form. ExaGrid is the only vendor that adds compute with capacity versus just adding disk shelves. This scale-out approach allows for performance to be added along with capacity growth, which provides for a fixed-length backup window as data grows.

Rubrik to hit enterprise with double whammy

Analysis #Rubrik CEO @BipulSinha says there are two ways of looking at backup and recovery: loosely they are hardware or storage-centric and software-centric. The hardware-centric view was centred on #DataDomain. Its arrays were connected directly to data sources, such as databases, and took a data dump from them, deduplicating it and providing vastly faster restores than are available from tape libraries. Sinha’s exemplar for the software-centric data management view is #Veritas. It looked into the source database and generated a metadata account of it – a full catalogue. Then it collected data and sent it out to backends. Rubrik, Sinha says, is re-inventing Veritas for the multi-cloud world: “We’re the reincarnation of #Veritas.” Companies coming from a storage view of the world are reinventing #DataDomain for the modern era, and talking about secondary storage consolidation. He includes #Actifio and #Cohesity in this group. We might also include #Catalogic. Sinha says Data Domain and Cohesity just take a dump generated by a source database. Because they don’t generate metadata about data sources, then they don’t possess the granularity that Rubrik does. Veeam is also in the data management software camp, and has found great success with small and medium enterprises. In many ways it is similar to Rubrik, but Sinha says it is focussed on small and medium enterprises while Rubrik is enterprise-focussed. Commvault is a Rubrik precursor and built for the last generation of data centres – the pre-cloud era, Sinha says, and the Data Domains and Cohesitys sit behind Veeam and Commvault. Datos IO is in the data management software camp. According to Sinha, it has focussed on the distributed database area, which is a tiny part of the market. If it grows to an interesting and significant size, then Rubrik will extend its offering to cover it. He says that if you want to be an enterprise data management company, you need a strong metadata platform. “We combined that with data definition and we have self-describing data. That’s our core innovation.” With it you can take data from one place and power it up elsewhere. In the next three to five years, Sinha thinks, there will still be a storage-centric view versus a software data management view. But we’ll be in a multi-cloud world and in the cloud there is no storage. The cloud gives you storage. What business customers will need is data management and the software data management view will, he implies, prevail

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/11/rubrik_thinks_it_is_on_a_data_management_winner/

Datrium Announces Split Provisioning For Simple Private Cloud Consolidation At Rackscale

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Datrium, the leading provider of #OpenConvergedInfrastructure for private clouds, today announced Datrium #DVX 3.0 with Split Provisioning, a fundamentally new and different method of scaling converged infrastructure for private clouds. DVX with #SplitProvisioning is the industry's first server-powered converged infrastructure system to fully separate scaling of host storage speed and persistent capacity to simply and incrementally match resources to evolving tenant requirements. The new software provides scaling from 1-128 Compute Nodes, or up to 200 gigabytes per second (GB/s) IO bandwidth, and from 1-10 Data Nodes, or up to 1.7 petabytes (PB) of capacity, in a single composable pool. Datrium will demonstrate its DVX platform with Split Provisioning at the VMWorld conference in Las Vegas, Aug. 27-31, booth #618.  Unlike Open Converged Infrastructure, Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) approaches maintain persistent data on every server and are limited to 2 or 3 simultaneous server failures before users experience a data outage. As a result, HCI users tend toward smaller clusters, across which servers and workloads should be homogeneous. According to Gartner, "in today's world, most hyperconverged deployments are in the range of 8 to 16 nodes,"1 so rackscale deployments need multiple clusters, each of which needs configuration and administration. Gartner has concluded that "…many mainstream enterprise IT directors do not yet trust SDS in HCIS solutions to deliver multipetabyte capacity at scale for Tier 1 mixed workloads that require low latency."2 10X Greater Consolidation With Split Provisioning, Datrium DVX scales compute with both primary and secondary storage resources in a radically new way. Compute Nodes run all workloads in local commodity flash for high performance and low latency. Each Compute Node writes persistent data to network-attached, capacity-optimized Data Nodes, which are similar to purpose-built backup appliances optimized for cost efficiency and sequential IO. Because Compute Nodes are stateless, any number of them can go down for service without affecting data availability. Until now, Datrium DVX supported a single Data Node. With DVX 3.0 and Split Provisioning, a single Datrium DVX can pool multiple Data Nodes, each of which adds capacity and write bandwidth. While the minimum DVX configuration is one compute node and one data node, Split Provisioning allows scalability up to 128 compute nodes and 10 data nodes in a single system. Adding a Data Node to a pool is a one-command operation, after which the system automatically and non-disruptively rebalances capacity. System-wide performance and capacity increases up to: 200 GB/s read bandwidth and 18 million input/output operations per second3 (IOPS), an order of magnitude higher than market-leading all flash arrays4, ideal for read intensive applications like Microsoft SQL Server or virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) boot storms; 8 GB/s write throughput, ideal for write-intensive applications such as ingest operations for big data analytics or data warehousing; 1.7 PB of effective capacity. "At Parametric, we provide engineered portfolio solutions to institutional investors and private clients built on quantitative, rules-based analysis. Our largest private cloud environment has grown 200-300 percent over the last year, and have received requests for 80 to 100 terabytes for a single project," said Ben Garforth, Parametric Portfolio Systems Engineering Manager. "With Datrium and Split Provisioning, I can now handle our massive data growth cost effectively and non-disruptively within a single resource pool. And better still, I don't need to manage a thing—I check in on the Datrium solution once a month and that's about it." "Datrium's premise has always been that their 'open convergence' method delivers better overall scalability, along with independent scalability of performance and capacity, compared to hyperconverged architectures – in essence, private clouds with virtually limitless performance and scale with the ease of public clouds," said Arun Taneja, Founder and Consulting Analyst of Taneja Group. "Split Provisioning delivers further proof point for their claim. With the pace of innovation coming from Datrium, I can't wait to see what comes next." Converging Compute with Primary and Secondary Storage Datrium DVX converges compute with both primary and secondary storage, and Split Provisioning takes this to an entirely new scale. Compute Nodes write data to low cost, disk-based Data Nodes with always-on global deduplication, inline compression, erasure coding and Blanket Encryption. Data Cloud, Datrium's built-in cloud data management software, can now manage up to 1.2 million snapshots per DVX, replicable to other DVX's or to Amazon Web Services. For additional data protection, DVX 3.0 now offers application-consistent snapshots for Microsoft Windows-based applications such as MS SQL Server. Datrium Volume Shadow Service Provider leverages instantaneous and scalable DVX Snapshots, eliminating VM stuns and related sluggish application performance for large data sets. "As specialty appliances decline, the future of private clouds will look like DVX," said Brian Biles, Datrium CEO and Co-founder. "Split Provisioning enables an order of magnitude more application bandwidth than most all-flash arrays, much simpler rackscale consolidation than HCI, and better secondary storage than either. This is tomorrow calling." [SPEC SHEET] Datrium DVX Specification Sheet [DATA SHEET] Datrium DVX Data Sheet [WHITEPAPER] Split Provisioning Technical Whitepaper [BLOG] And The Third Shoe Drops Pricing and Availability Split Provisioning software is available immediately with Datrium DVX Software 3.0 at US list pricing of $12,000 per Compute Node. 1Gartner: Key Differences Between Nutanix, VxRail and SimpliVity HCIS Appliances | 26 April 2017 2Gartner: Beware the 'Myth-Conceptions' Surrounding Hyperconverged Integrated Systems | 18 February 2016 refreshed 02 June 2017 3Performance based on Datrium Lab Testing. Bandwidth measured with 64K IO size 100% Read. IOPS measured with 4K IO size, 100% Read | July 2017 4From XtremIO specifications sheet Industry Recognition Gartner, Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016, April 2016 - A Cool Vendor Gartner Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. About Datrium Datrium is the leader in Open Converged Infrastructure for private clouds. Datrium converges storage and compute across primary application and data management workloads—modeled on public cloud IaaS versus traditional converged infrastructure or hyper-convergence—for vastly simpler performance, predictability and protection. The company is led by the founders and early top architects of Data Domain and VMware. For more information, visit www.datrium.com and follow @datrium on Twitter.

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Commvault: One Of The Sweeter Fruits New Jersey Has To Offer

#Commvault - Revisiting an old friend after a mid-life crisis I have spent the last few days going through the few remaining publicly traded companies in the enterprise storage space. Commvault (CVLT) is not a storage vendor per se, but it is a company that provides a software solution to provide back-up and recovery solutions for storage users and storage vendors. If the storage space does well, the odds are pretty high that Commvault will do well. Commvault has recently signed a partnership with #Pure (PSTG) and #Cisco (CSCO) that certainly has the potential to be significant in terms of extending the company’s footprint. The partnership has been seemingly ignored by investors, although the ability to use hyper-converged technology as part of its solution set could produce meaningful incremental revenues for CVLT. A few years ago, the company ran into a buzz-saw as its business was substantially impacted by the emergence of cloud storage service offerings and its growth grounded to a halt and for a time revenue growth was negative. The company’s revenues reached a nadir toward the back-half of 2015 and results have improved steadily and significantly since the trough. At the time of the trough, according to the Gartner survey linked here, many users felt that Commvault had lost its technological differentiation, had become difficult to use and it had the reputation as an expensive vendor. Most of those specific issues are apparently behind the company - at least according to Gartner's latest survey - although the financial impact of the adoption of different maintenance pricing models continues to retard the company’s growth potential in terms of headline numbers. That said, in the latest Gartner survey, users report positive experiences and high levels of satisfaction using Commvault's back-up and recovery tools. I last wrote about Commvault almost 9 months ago and the company hasn’t elicited a great deal of interest either back at that time or more recently. The shares have barely budged since my last article (they are up about 6%), a period which has seen the iShares North American Tech-Software ETF (NYSEARCA:IGV) appreciate by 25%. And yet the company has quietly over-attained its articulated forecasts during that period and has seen its revenue growth, and particularly its license revenue growth, accelerate as well. Simply put, Commvault’s house has gotten better, its neighborhood has continued to improve and yet the price of its dwelling has barely risen. It presents a good opportunity and one that has been overlooked by many despite First Call consensus expectations for significant top-line and EPS growth over the next couple of years. The company’s cash flow from operations exceeds non-GAAP net income consistently, primarily because of steady increases in deferred revenues. Since reaching the nadir of the company’s operational performance, the company has consistently increased its guidance, although, as mentioned earlier, its share price has not reflected that trend. It has been consistently able to surpass consensus expectations over that span, by amounts ranging from 25% to 8%, and I have no reason to believe that the current quarter will not continue that kind of performance. The company has announced that it will be reporting earnings toward the end of this month and I think it might well be an appropriate time for readers/investors to re-acquaint themselves with the investment case for the shares

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4087916-commvault-one-sweeter-fruits-new-jersey-offer

The 7 Most Important Things To Know About Dell EMC's New 14G PowerEdge Servers

Down To The Bedrock The latest generation of the PowerEdge server portfolio that Dell EMC unveiled at the Dell EMC World conference in May has finally hit the market. Most of it, at least. Five of the seven models in the new line become available this week while customers will have to wait until later in the year for two. Dubbed 14G, the fourteenth generation of the venerable PowerEdge line launches in lockstep with the release of Intel's new Xeon Scalable processors. Of course, that means PowerEdge 14G has plenty of competition, including Lenovo's rebranded ThinkSystem server line, which was introduced last month and also relies on Intel's latest processors Dell EMC intends 14G to be "the bedrock of the modern data center," and the portfolio will underpin a wide variety of Dell EMC systems, including the popular VxRail hyper-converged infrastructure offering, which hits the market with a starting price of about $25,000. Clearly, Dell EMC is intent on pushing growth in the server market as it consolidates. Dell EMC was the only major server vendor to show server revenue growth in the first quarter as the worldwide market declined nearly 5 percent, according to research firm IDC. Click through to see the most important aspects of the new PowerEdge 14G line.

The Foundation

#DellEMC shipped more than 465,000 servers in the first quarter, and part of its strategy for growing that number is making PowerEdge the basis for a broad selection of Dell EMC solutions. The new #14G servers will be the foundation of offerings that used the previous generation of #PowerEdge servers, including #VxRail appliances, #VxRack systems, the #Nutanix-based XC hyper-convergence offering, #vSAN ReadyNodes, #ScaleIO ReadyNodes, #IsilionSD Edge and #ElasticCloudStorage. PowerEdge servers will also be available in several new #DellEMC offerings, including the #DataDomain Appliance, #CloudArray, Ready Bundles, Ready Systems Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud and Dell EMC Cloud For #MicrosoftAzure Stack.

Traditional To Software-Defined

The new PowerEdge is part of what Dell EMC calls scalable business architecture, a system that allows customers to move from traditional to virtualized to cloud-native workloads in software-defined data centers more easily. The 14G portfolio is optimized for NVMe to help speed the deployment of software-defined data center and hyper-converged infrastructure with faster database and storage performance and faster migration of VMs. The company also says life-cycle management is easier and problems will be resolved nearly twice as fast as in the past through Dell EMC's ProSupport and Support Assist programs.

On Lockdown

Dell EMC counts security as one of the major selling points of its servers, and 14G continues that with cryptographically trusted booting, which includes Intel Boot Guard protection, signed firmware and automatic BIOS recovery, among other features. The PowerEdge portfolio also includes System Lockdown, which helps secure any system configuration from malicious or unintended changes and alerts users to any attempt to make system changes. The new servers also come with System Erase, which allows users to retire or repurpose 14G servers by quickly wiping data from storage devices and embedded memory.

http://m.crn.com/slide-shows/data-center/300088771/the-7-most-important-things-to-know-about-dell-emcs-new-14g-poweredge-servers.htm

Dell EMC Launches Next Generation of the World's Best-Selling Server Portfolio

Dell EMC is announcing worldwide availability for its next generation of the world's bestselling server3 to help customers of all sizes fuel their IT transformation initiatives. Recently previewed at Dell EMC World 2017, the award-winning design of the new 14th generation Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio forms a scalable, automated and secure compute platform for traditional and cloud-native applications, designed for new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. "The Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation servers improve upon the world's best-selling server portfolio, designed to drive our customers' IT transformations," said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, president, Server Solutions Division at Dell EMC. "Our modern infrastructure solutions are a game changer in today's digital economy. With our cyber-resilient architecture and performance innovations, we will enable our customers to unleash their business potential." In a recent ESG 2017 IT Transformation Maturity Curve study commissioned by Dell EMC, organizations furthest along in their IT transformation initiatives are seven times more likely to view IT as a competitive differentiator. To achieve this, the priority for many IT transformation initiatives is a modern infrastructure that can securely deliver improved efficiencies while driving innovation that enables new business models. With its scalable business architecture, intelligent automation and integrated security, the new Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation server portfolio delivers on these desired benefits. PowerEdge servers, the bedrock of the modern data center, enable customers to push innovation further and faster to achieve their IT transformation goals. The scalable business architecture of Dell EMC PowerEdge servers helps customers efficiently meet their changing business needs with enhanced performance capabilities for traditional, virtualized and cloud-native workloads in a software-defined data center. The new Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio, highly optimized for non-volatile memory express (NVMe), helps customers accelerate deployment of software-defined data storage and hyper-converged infrastructure stacks with: Accelerated database performance and lower latency with up to 12 times more database IOPS1 and up to 98 percent less database latency in a VMware vSAN cluster4 Faster and seamless live migration of virtual machines now up to 58 percent faster with up to 75 percent less CPU usage when using 25GbE with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)5 Faster storage performance in compute to maximize application performance with up to six times more NVMe drives, up to five times total flash storage, 30 percent more input/output slots and 25 percent density improvement6 Intelligent automation in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers enable IT professionals to focus on mission-critical tasks that drive greater customer and business value. Specifically, OpenManage Enterprise with a powerful RESTful API offers tools for automating deployment, updates, monitoring and maintenance. The new, more powerful OpenManage Enterprise management console offers users: Easy server lifecycle management from deployment to retirement and repurposing with enhanced Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC9). It gives up to four times more improved performance in user interface and experience and a 30% time reduction to set up iDRAC with QuickSync 22 mobile-based management Up to 90 percent faster PowerEdge server issue resolution using ProSupport Plus and SupportAssist proactive and predictive technology7 Dell EMC believes that integrated security is integral to compute and should not require extra licensing fees. Dell EMC pioneered root of trust within its PowerEdge servers for the past two generations. A robust cyber-resilient architecture enables customers to protect, detect, recover and retire PowerEdge servers via: Cryptographically trusted booting that anchors end-to-end server safety and overall data center security. It includes features like silicon-based root of trust, Intel Boot Guard protection, signed firmware and automatic BIOS recovery and the new OpenManage Enterprise as a virtual console delivers enhanced server safety while offering customers operational flexibility System Lockdown, a capability unique to PowerEdge, helps secure any system configuration from malicious or unintended changes while alerting users to any attempted system changes System Erase, which allows users to easily retire or repurpose their 14th generation PowerEdge servers by securely and quickly wiping data from storage drives and other embedded non-volatile memory In collaboration with Intel, Dell EMC is bringing Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors to Dell EMC PowerEdge14th generation servers. With 27 percent more CPU cores and 50 percent more memory bandwidth6, Dell EMC PowerEdge 14th generation server customers can accelerate performance of business critical applications and workloads. Dell EMC's most advanced line-up of PowerEdge servers includes rack and blade form factors. Dell EMC PowerEdge R640 – Ideal combination for dense scale-out data center computing and storage in a 1U/2-socket platform Dell EMC PowerEdge R740 – Workhorse for demanding environments providing the ideal balance between storage, I/O and application acceleration and with superior configuration flexibility in a 2U/2S platform. R740 enables up to 50 percent more VDI users per server8 and up to 50 percent more GPU accelerator support for Hadoop analytics9 Dell EMC PowerEdge R740XD – This 2U/2S platform is best-in-class storage performance and density for applications like software-defined storage and with the versatility demanded by cloud service providers, Hadoop/Big Data users and co-location hosting Dell EMC PowerEdge R940 – This 3U/ 4S platform handles extremely demanding, mission critical workloads like enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-commerce and very large databases. The PowerEdge R940 can save up to US $600,000 in Oracle Licensing costs10 and performs up to 44% faster in a SAP SD Sybase Environment11 Dell EMC PowerEdge M640 and FC640 – Unparalleled modular serves designed for high performance with best-in-class density for exceptional scalability in a Blade and Modular platform Dell EMC PowerEdge C6420 – Ideal for high performance computing. Maximizes density, scalability and energy efficiency per unit in a 2U/8S Modular platform PowerEdge servers are also the bedrock of Dell EMC solutions. Dell EMC's industry-leading solutions and platforms also will benefit from the power and security of this new generation of PowerEdge servers. The servers will be embedded in storage and data center appliances, hyper-converged appliances and racks, hybrid cloud platforms, ready nodes, bundles and other Dell EMC solutions. These integrations go deeper than simply running software on hardware. With industry-leading hardware and software in its broader enterprise portfolio, Dell EMC is able to allow the software management stack insight into the hardware to optimize performance, as well as deeply test and validate them together. The new servers will be the foundation of #DellEMC solutions that used the previous generation of #PowerEdge such as #VxRail Appliances, #VxRack Systems, #NutanixXC Series, #vSAN ReadyNodes, #ScaleIO Ready Nodes, #IsilonSD Edge and #ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage). Additionally, it will be available in many new Dell EMC solutions and platforms, including #DataDomain Appliance, #CloudArray, #ReadyBundles, Ready Systems, Dell EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, Dell EMC Native Hybrid Cloud and Dell EMC Cloud for #Microsoft #AzureStack. Availability Dell EMC PowerEdge R940, R740, R740xd, R640, and C6420 are now available worldwide. Dell EMC PowerEdge FC640 and M640 will be available later in 2017. Dell EMC solutions based on new PowerEdge servers will become available worldwide throughout the second half of 2017.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dell-emc-launches-next-generation-of-the-worlds-best-selling-server-portfolio-300486257.html

Dell EMC commitment to Nutanix deepens With Data Domain and Avamar

Dell EMC remains Nutanix’s most interesting partner. That’s because Dell also owns VMware, which sells vSAN hyper-converged software and a little hypervisor called ESX that AHV competes against. Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged appliances — powered by vSAN — directly compete with Nutanix NX appliances. IDC’s recent hyper-converged tracker numbers show Nutanix with 21% of the first-quarter market share from sales of its appliances and 30% when counting sales from Dell EMC XC and Lenovo appliances with Nutanix software. Dell EMC VxRail appliances with VMware vSAN software come in second at 17%. The Dell-Nutanix OEM relationship goes back before Dell acquired EMC. The Dell-EMC deal raised questions about the future of Dell’s relationship with Nutanix, but Dell executives have repeatedly publicly pledged their commitment to Nutanix. Dell EMC confirmed its commitment to keep selling Nutanix at Dell EMC World last fall and this spring, and sent the president of its converged platforms group, Chad Sakac, to Nutanix .NEXT 2017. “I am going to make things ridiculously simple: The partnership is good, strong and growing,” Sakac said. “Michael Dell believes, and I believe, customers demand choices. We have to embrace that. “The team that works on XC is really passionate about XC,” he said. Dell EMC claims more than 1,200 XC customers with 14,000 nodes deployed. Sakac also said #DellEMC would expand development on the #XC platform, notably integrating #DataDomain and #Avamar backup into #Nutanix #Prism. “I can thank @MichaelDell and Chad [Sakac] for helping us build this company so far,” Nutanix president Sudheesh Nair said during a Nutanix .NEXT 2017 keynote. Sunil Potti, Nutanix chief product and development officer, said Dell EMC’s slice of the hyper-convergence market is limited if it only sells Dell appliances running VMware software. “They still have to go after the rest of the market, which is the majority,” Potti said. “So they need multiple hypervisors and multiple platforms. That’s the reason they’re still bipolar about us.”

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/blog/Storage-Soup/Nutanix-NEXT-2017-highlights-HCI-vendors-partners-frenemies

Pure Storage, Cohesity expand partnership with FlashBlade integration

SAN FRANCISCO – #PureStorage has expanded its relationship with #hyperconverged secondary storage vendor #Cohesity. In February, the two companies announced an integration of Pure’s FlashArray//M and Cohesity DataPlatform to provide simple, snapshot-based data protection. They have now expanded their partnership, integrating Cohesity’s DataPlatform with Pure’s #FlashBlade, which provides flash based flash-based fast access to unstructured data through a native object storage-based implementation. “Our original relationship around FlashArray//M used a RESTful API to let you grab any snapshot and back it up to a Cohesity system,” said Patrick Rogers, Cohesity’s Head of Product Management and Marketing. “It allowed us to do backups of Pure snaphots while the Pure array was running. You could even then delete them on the Pure Array and use that more expensive storage for other purposes – especially since snapshots get bigger as they get older.” FlashBlade, Pure’s new product for high-performance unstructured workloads in areas like genomics, machine learning, and Big Data analytics, entered general availability in January. While it had 8 and 52 TB blades out of the gate, Pure announced a new 17 TB blade here at the Accelerate event. The new Cohesity integration means that files and objects stored on FlashBlade can be automatically protected to the Cohesity web-scale platform based on data protection policies, with users getting instantaneous, any-point-in-time access to their data on Cohesity. Vendor partnerships are a critical part of Cohesity’s go to market strategy. Late last month they announced an important new relationship with #HPE, as well as one with #Microsoft around #Azure and one with #Lenovo that for now is limited to the China market. They have special synergies with #PureStorage however, which is a key reason for their presence at Pure’s Accelerate show. “We do a lot of business with Pure customers,” Rogers said. “Customers likely to adopt Pure are looking for a better solution to adopt, and want best-in-class technology. If they want to do that in storage, they tend to be looking to do the same thing on the data protection side. They are open to change. #Nimble and #Nutanix have been big for us for the same reason.” Cohesity tries to integrate with everyone, even companies like #DellEMC, with which they don’t have a working relationship. “They have #DataDomain and we displace Data Domain, so they perceive us more as competitors than as potential partners,” Rogers said. Cohesity also found the Pure event a good one to talk with potential new partners. “There are a lot of potential new partners here for us, cutting edge technology types, who would be less likely to have been at #HPE Discover, where we were last week,” Rogers said. “They come here to view the new technology being discussed. That’s why we find this to be a great venue for us, with both the kind of partners and customers looking for innovation.” Cohesity drew a strong reception at the Accelerate event, as measured by the traffic around their booth, and the attendance at their presentation [picture inset]. Attendance at vendor sessions generally – which was easy to assess since everything was visible in the open concept approach here – was extraordinarily good by the standard of these kind of events. Most not only had every seat filled, but had several dozen people watching from just outside the ‘room.’ That reflects good advance work by Pure, but also the logistical advantages of scheduling an event at a converted 19th century factory/warehouse on the San Francisco pier, well removed from the many amenities of the city’s better-known areas near the downtown. Sadly, this was the last event for the Pier 70 venue, which will shortly be demolished to put up higher-value improvements in San Francisco’s insane real estate market

http://www.channelbuzz.ca/2017/06/pure-storage-cohesity-expand-partnership-flashblade-integration-21808/

Data Protection is an Imperative Step to Drive Business Growth

It is also important to understand data protection laws in order to manage it better and combat cyber attacks ensuring safeguarding of data present in the network. Many organizations today have been given a mandate to have some percentage of their IT infrastructure in the cloud. With IDC stating that 70% of CIOs have a “cloud first” strategy which means that the combination of #DataDomain and the #DataProtectionSuite can now deliver best-of-breed disaster recovery to the cloud. With Data Domain Cloud Disaster Recovery, organizations are able protect their on premises Data Domain using Data Protection Suite by transferring data securely and efficiently for disaster recovery, eliminating the need for an additional data center and taking advantage of the agility and cost effectiveness of cloud object storage. Additionally, customers can now benefit by gaining efficiency, reliability and performance they expect from Data Domain in the cloud with the latest release of #DataDomainVirtualEdition. Organizations today try to meet various challenges resulting in the creation of fragmented data protection environments for various application and platforms. The end result is significantly increased time to value, costs and complexity, and lower reliability. Organizations should opt for integrated data protection solutions that is purpose-built to solve the data protection challenges confronted by the modern enterprises. Hence, Indian organizations have greatly benefited from data protection as these are usually mid-size businesses which are affected the most due to cyber attacks. Now with measures being taken to ensure protection of data, these businesses can sustain itself in the long run without the risk of being compromised.

http://www.dqindia.com/securing-data-is-an-imperative-step-to-drive-business-growth/

Cloud-based data protection offers a hint of where Dell EMC is going

The days when an enterprise had no cloud plan are long gone. This is why #DellEMC, #DellTechnologies Inc.’s infrastructure group, is pursuing a very deliberate strategy of forming partnerships with major cloud service providers while continuing to enhance its on-premises portfolio of client services. “That’s a hint of where we’re going, and you’re going to see more and more of that as we go forward,” said Sam Grocott, senior vice president of marketing, storage and data protection at Dell EMC. Grocott stopped by theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, to answer questions from hosts Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), during Dell EMC World 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. They discussed new trends in data protection, how to keep the company on the cutting-edge and the important role that cloud services will play in Dell EMC’s overall business strategy.

https://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/06/05/cloud-based-data-protection-offers-hint-dell-emc-going-dellemcworld/

Dell EMC Launches All-Flash Storage Barrage

#DellEMC World is continuing the decade-plus tradition set by EMC World to be a platform for showcasing the future of storage technology. And for Dell EMC, which after its historic merger became the world's largest storage vendor, the future of storage is anchored on software capabilities and the hybrid cloud. To maintain Dell EMC's No. 1 position in storage, the company has continued to innovate its storage technology, said Sam Grocott, senior vice president of marketing for storage and data protection. "Whether it's across the core tenets of the modern data center, scale-out, software-defined storage, next-generation flash technologies and converged offerings, we continue to demonstrate rapid innovation that is meeting our customers' ever-evolving needs," Grocott told CRN. "It's been full speed ahead on innovation." Dell EMC makes a strong case about the importance of on-premise and hybrid cloud infrastructures, said Jamie Shepard, senior vice president for health care and strategy at Lumenate, a Dallas-based solution provider and longtime Dell EMC partner. "Dell EMC is creating better performance and management of on-premise storage," Shepard told CRN. "They're putting a damper on the public cloud for primary storage, and are showing how to better leverage hybrid clouds." Grocott said that nearly every Dell EMC storage product is being refreshed with new hardware and software. At the high end, Dell EMC is introducing the #VMAX 950F, the new ‑ flagship of its all flash enterprise storage array family. New is a 68 percent increase in the performance as measured by IOs per second, as well as a 30 percent increase in response time. Dell EMC is also debuting its second-generation #XtremIO high-end all-flash block storage platform. #XtremIOX2 offers a 25 percent increase in the data reduction capabilities, and supports scale-up in addition to scale-out to let customers add additional storage densities to previously deployed nodes while cutting total cost of ownership by half on a per-gigabyte basis, Grocott said. Also refreshed is the Unity all-flash midrange array line with four models that take advantage of new CPU and memory capabilities. They offer 16 times the storage density and a 30 percent performance improvement over the current generation, and they can handle a maximum ­file size of 256 TB compared with the current 64 TB. Installation takes less than 10 minutes, Grocott said. Dell EMC also introduced the latest iteration of its SC #Compellent midrange storage arrays. The SC5020 has double the capacity of previous models, and offers 45 percent more IOs per second performance. It is the first in the SC family to support a wide range of Dell EMC enterprise storage software including PowerPath automated data path management and load-balancing software, ViPR storage automation software, RecoverPoint disaster recovery software, and Connectrix storage networking, Grocott said. On the unstructured data side, Dell EMC is introducing a new architecture called Infinity to its Isilon storage line, which offers a 6X improvement in IOs per second performance and an 11X improvement in throughput. The new Infinity architecture brings Isilon its ­first modular scale-out storage system that includes separate compute and storage nodes to allow compute and storage to scale independently of each other within a single chassis. The company is also introducing the first all-flash Isilon offering. In addition, Dell EMC is unveiling two major new data protection products at Dell EMC World, said Beth Phalen, president of the Dell EMC Data Protection division. "We're moving more towards turnkey solutions that are easier to deploy and that deliver a comprehensive set of features in one package," Phalen told CRN. The first is the Integrated Data Protection Appliance that combines the company's #DataDomain backup appliance with its Data Protection Suite software. "It will allow customers to go from install to backup in less than three hours, which is a signi­ficant improvement from what they need to do when they buy traditional backup and recovery from any vendor today," she said. The second is a move to more closely tie the Data Domain appliances to the cloud with new capabilities, including the ability to back up data from workloads in #Microsoft #Azure and #AmazonWebServices clouds to Data Domain and to replicate data between on-premise Data Domain appliances and cloud-based DDVE, or Data Domain Virtual Edition, Phalen said. DDVE, which was released last year, currently runs in on-premise cloud environments, but some time in the second quarter will also run on Azure and #AWS clouds. DDVE eventually will be able to run in any cloud environment, she said.

http://m.crn.com/news/storage/300084829/dell-emc-launches-all-flash-storage-barrage.htm

Dell EMC IDPA changes vendor's backup strategy

The Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance ( #IDPA ) marks a departure in #EMC 's enterprise data protection strategy. Instead of only selling backup software separate from its #DataDomain backup targets, it will sell IDPA as a turnkey appliance with software bundled. Data Domain's inline deduplication is a key piece of the Dell EMC IDPA, providing the data reduction to go with Dell EMC #Networker and #Avamar backup software.

The software package is the same on all Dell EMC IDPA turnkey appliances. There are four appliance models -- the DP5300, DP5800, DP8300 and DP8800 -- ranging from 34 TB to 1 PB of usable capacity. The appliances are Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

"It's a one-stop shop for software," said Sam Grocott, Dell EMC senior vice president of marketing for storage and data protection. "The only decision is the capacity points."

The DP5300 appliance scales to 130 TB of usable capacity, and is rated for a maximum throughput of 24 TB per hour using Data Domain Boost software. The DP5800 stores up to 288 TB of usable capacity, with a throughput of up to 31 TB per hour with DD Boost. The DP8300 stores up to 780 TB of usable capacity, with a maximum throughput of 41 TB per hour with DD Boost. The DP8800 stores up to 1 PB of usable capacity, with a maximum throughput of 68 TB per hour.

The DP5300 and DP5800 are midsize enterprise models, while the DP8300 and DP8800 are for large enterprises.

Dell EMC claims an average 55:1 deduplication rate for the IDPA platform. Other built-in features include native cloud tiering, encryption and data analytics.

The EMC Data Domain platform has long been a favorite backup target not only for EMC Networker and Avamar software, but for other vendors' backup applications. Data Domain has dominated the backup target market for years, but it has lost ground to Veritas NetBackup integrated appliances over the past year.

Integrated data backup appliances remove the need for media servers and the need to buy backup software separate from the hardware. They are also simpler to set up and manage, although they may not scale as well as standalone disk backup targets.

The concept is hardly new. Veritas (then Symantec) launched its first integrated appliances in 2010. Other traditional backup vendors such as Arcserve and Unitrends have since adopted integrated appliances, and well-funded startups Cohesity and Rubrik have launched what they call converged secondary data platforms over the past two years.

EMC's first departure from its long-standing Data Domain backup strategy came in April 2016, when it launched a Data Domain Virtual Edition. DD VE separated the data deduplication software from the hardware, and will be part of the Dell EMC IDPA.

Last summer, EMC brought out a VCE Data Protection appliance for entry-level and midrange customers that scaled from 21 TB to 288 TB, and only included Avamar and Data Domain software.

Unlike traditional Data Domain appliances, the Dell EMC IDPA requires customers to use Dell EMC backup software as well as its hardware.
http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/news/450418401/Dell-EMC-IDPA-changes-vendors-backup-strategy

Salesforce Expands Relationship with Dell, Signs Multi-Year Commitment to Use Dell EMC Infrastructure and Dell Laptops

ROUND ROCK, Texas, May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Dell Inc., the essential infrastructure company, today announces that #Salesforce, the world's fastest-growing top-five enterprise software company and #1 CRM provider globally, is expanding its relationship with Dell by signing a multi-year commitment to use #DellEMC infrastructure in its global data centers and empower its employees with Dell Latitude laptops. Salesforce will extend its use of a variety of Dell EMC solutions, including #VMAX All Flash and #Isilon scale-out NAS storage arrays, #DataDomain data protection products and #PowerEdge servers. The new all-flash storage arrays will provide the petabyte-level storage and data protection Salesforce requires. Dell EMC storage and services will enable Salesforce to maximize the performance, reliability, availability and efficiency of its infrastructure to deliver the Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success platform to customers around the world. With Dell Latitude1 client solutions, Salesforce's 25,000 employees will have access to the world's most secure, manageable and reliable business-class laptops. Executive quotes: Michael Dell, chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies "With our unique family of businesses, Dell Technologies provides customers with the essential infrastructure to build their digital future, transform IT and protect their most important asset, information. The expansion of Salesforce's use of Dell EMC storage and servers and Dell laptops is an important milestone in our decade-long relationship." Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO, Salesforce "Michael and Dell have been amazing partners contributing to Salesforce's success. We're thrilled to extend our relationship with Dell Technologies as we deliver the scale and innovation to support the needs of Salesforce's growing global customer base."

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