This was EMC’s Supersession, delivered by Phil Harris, VP Engineering, Acadia and myself. It covers a broad swath of what VCE is thinking strategically, delivering to support the via Vblocks at our joint customers today from an integration, multi-tenancy, management standpoint along with highlighting use cases and solutions.
We also demonstrated a series of VCE capabilities in use cases, including supporting Cisco Unified Communications (in the example, supporting Exchange 2010 and 15,000 IP phones off a single Vblock 1 with plenty of room to spare) and also scale-out analytics showing GreenPlum running on a Vblock 1
It also represents an update on the Vblock themselves (seeing a lot of incorrect FUD) around why there are multiple Vblocs (use case and different technical and economic scaling models), and what’s in each.
We also discussed briefly the Vblock roadmap.
VCE-land continues to move along well. There’s loads of work to be done, mostly around the “operate like one” (single SKU, prestaging of all the kit), and Michael Capellas is all over those. Much has improved a great deal since this started back in April (single support is now up and running and I’m getting positive customer feedback), and much to go. One thing that is amazing is customer demand, which is off the hook…
The presentation can be downloaded here:
UPDATED – Sept 21st, 2010: I’ve gotten requests for recordings of the demos we gave… so here they are – enjoy!
This demo was of how you could use EMC Greenplum as virtual machines to have an elastic scale-out Data Warehouse on your Vblock – scaling up or down as your needs change. If you need a high-rez version, download as a MOV or WMV.
This demo was of how you could use UIM and vCloud director together – in the VE supersession, we did this live, in the VCE session we were a little more pressed for time. If you need a high-rez version, download as a MOV or WMV.
This was a quick demonstration of Cisco Unified Communication and Microsoft Exchange 2010 all running on a Vblock. A Vblock 1 could EASILY handle all the workload of 15,000 clients – frankly could do it as a “tuck in” along with all the cloud computing it could be doing :-) If you need a high-rez version, download as a WMV.
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