It’s odd to think that 2014 has been over for two months.  It seems like it was gone in the blink of an eye.  One of the surprises in early 2014, for me, was my induction into the EMC Elect program.  Being recognized as a community influence led to my recommitment to becoming active in the community.  I think I did a fairly decent job, especially in the first half of the year.  Here we are in 2015 and I’ve been included in the EMC Elect 2015 class as well!   The EMC Elect Program was created to recognized support of the EMC technical community. From involvement in events, participation in beta programs, and access to technical resources EMC has been ever active with the Elect community.  I am honored to have been named a member of the EMC Elect program for the second year in a row.  This year the program has 101 people, which is justRead More →

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With the announcement of ViPR 2.0 EMC is bringing some improvements and new features to EMC’s Software Defined Storage Software offering. The new and improved ViPR has major steps towards supporting a geo-distributed datacenter.  For object storage your multi-site geo-replicated ViPR environment will now be presented as a single global namespace.  The world of Active/Active writes is supported with strong consistency using a distributed erasure coding system, so you no longer have to choose between performance and redundancy.  Objects are now cut into chucks and stored in containers, this type of hybrid encoding allows for a very low storage overhead.  To allow for WAN optimized geo-disperse active/active traffic, ViPR looks for access patents and uses this information to accelerate the process. Object access is done via S3, Swift, or the Atmos API.  Another change in the object space brings the Centera API as ViPR CAS.  Today ViPR only supports the API, but a future release will allowRead More →

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My passion, like many of you, has always been technology. It all started when my dad bought me my commodore VIC-20 when I was just 5 or 6 years old. I remember the using the external storage at the time, a Datasette. It was the first, of many, technological advances I’d see with magnetic tape and data storage in general. I guess I’ve come full circle now working in the world of Enterprise Storage and Backup for the past 15 years. We’ve seen a huge amount of change and advancement. From DASD to FICON to FAST the landscape is an ever involving one. Passion. It’s what drives us to explore new things, rise to challenges, and advance and support our environments. That passion is what excites us to share knowledge and absorb knowledge shared by other. That passion is what makes part of being EMC Elect special. To be grouped together with so many engaging export whoRead More →

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