If it isn’t clear, I totally dig working at EMC. There is so much innovation, so much change, so much action, so much opportunity – it’s nuts. I try to stay as even handed as I can on the blog, but sometimes, the enthusiasm just can’t be contained :-)
With Pat Gelsinger leading the products team over the last year – the rate of innovation (both organic and inorganic) has increased, and with Jeremy Burton leading our marketing – the “go big or go home” way that we talk to the market, it makes it a lot of fun… and as a nerd… so many toys to play with!
Today EMC officially makes VFCache generally available. It’s been GA internally since mid-January, and has gone through a lot of beta time – which is why there are customers at launch. We’ve been talking about this as “Project Lightning” since EMC World, and just like we did with FAST – we show, we listen, and then it arrives.
With VFCache now on the market – I think that EMC is the only vendor with an “end to end” solution that leverages the disruptive positive effect that flash can have within an enterprise: from server PCIe based read caches, server PCIe based non-volatile storage, through to flash as shared array cache, and shared non-volatile storage (with automated tiering to boot).
So – what’s the story? What’s the hardware? What’s the software? Where are the v1.0 holes (they always exist!)? What’s the roadmap? What about the startups in this space? What the heck is Project Thunder? This will be a long post (even by my verbose standards), which I’ll break into “Why”, “What”, “What’s next” sections… 'Read on, dear reader, read on!
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