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EMC heads back to the high-stakes software table |
May 05, 2014
EMC’s big bet on software is likely to get even bigger at this week’s EMC World conference in Las Vegas.A year ago, the company announced ViPR, a storage virtualization and management platform designed to span hardware from across EMC and other vendors. This year, EMC may make that platform do even more, and it will showcase another concept for so-called software-defined storage even as it continues to rely on dedicated hardware systems as a mainstay of its business.EMC has made a fortune selling smart storage boxes, such as its VMax and VNX arrays, but its future vision is more focused on the smarts than on the boxes. The company says it’s committed to what it calls a “third platform” of computing built around cloud, mobile, big data and social networking. In that world, storage resources can reside in a number of different places and the real money is in the software that controls them.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2151200/emc-heads-back-to-the-highstakes-software-table.html#tk.rss_all
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