The second day of EMC World 2014 proved just as eventful as the first, with the storage stalwart and its subsidiaries launching another barrage of product announcements in a pivot towards the elusive "third platform for IT", the next evolution of enterprise computing beyond the client-server model. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon CTO Dave Vellante recapped the journey so far and discussed the future of the EMC federation in their live Day 2 opening segment on theCUBE (see full video below).
The first day of the event centered primarily on EMC itself. The vendor unveiled the latest version of its software-defined storage platform, introduced a new scale-out module and, perhaps most notably, announced the acquisition of DSSD. The stealthy startup was founded in 2010 by Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, the creators of the ZFS filesystem, and claims to have pioneered a unique approach to accessing flash memory that had apparently caught EMC's attention from the very start.
"My sources indicate to me that EMC was an early investor in DSSD, and I would suspect Pat [Gelsinger, the CEO of subsidiary VMware] even made the investment. I also heard that SAP was an early investor in DSSD and EMC bought out SAP's shares as part of that, so the key is that SAP has the inside track on DSSD and vice versa," Vellante says. The support of one of the world's largest enterprise software vendor represents a stamp of approval on EMC's efforts to capitalize on the startup's technology, he explains, and a significant advantage over rival Fusion-io.
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Day 2 Intro | EMC World 2014
The second day of EMC World 2014 proved just as eventful as the first, with the storage stalwart and its subsidiaries launching another barrage of product announcements in a pivot towards the elusive "third platform for IT", the next evolution of enterprise computing beyond the client-server model. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon CTO Dave Vellante recapped the journey so far and discussed the future of the EMC federation in their live Day 2 opening segment on theCUBE (see full video below).
The first day of the event centered primarily on EMC itself. The vendor unveiled the latest version of its software-defined storage platform, introduced a new scale-out module and, perhaps most notably, announced the acquisition of DSSD. The stealthy startup was founded in 2010 by Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, the creators of the ZFS filesystem, and claims to have pioneered a unique approach to accessing flash memory that had apparently caught EMC's attention from the very start.
"My sources indicate to me that EMC was an early investor in DSSD, and I would suspect Pat [Gelsinger, the CEO of subsidiary VMware] even made the investment. I also heard that SAP was an early investor in DSSD and EMC bought out SAP's shares as part of that, so the key is that SAP has the inside track on DSSD and vice versa," Vellante says. The support of one of the world's largest enterprise software vendor represents a stamp of approval on EMC's efforts to capitalize on the startup's technology, he explains, and a significant advantage over rival Fusion-io.
