Monthly Archives: February 2013

VMAX Cloud Edition – are we in for a rain shower or a hurricane?

VMAX

Just now at the VMware Partner Exchange 2013 (AKA PEX ’13) in Las Vegas, EMC announced the VMAX Cloud Edition for the Enterprise and midmarket. It’s an exciting new product that meets the needs of service providers to meet more of the customers needs. Now that’s a lot of “needs”, right?

But why should we even pay attention to the service provider side of the story?

The latest IDC Research Notes provides insight into this Market Momentum.

It is no surprise that Conventional IT spending is down, Private Cloud adoption is growing the fastest at 23%.

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VCE announces new vBlock models

Thursday February the 21st VCE announced new models in the successful vBlock productline. VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, is a leader in converged cloud infrastructure systems. On Thursday February the 21st 2013 new models were added to the existing 300 and 700 models. The latest additions are the vBlock 100, 200, 320 and 720.

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