EMC extends acquisitions to secure and large data companies

"Tenkine Server channel May 14 News" Over the past few years, EMC, which dominates the enterprise storage industry, has been involved in areas such as virtualization, security, and large data through a series of acquisitions. A few days ago, EMC and VMware, RSA Security and Pivotal formed a new alliance, which could then be acquired in the area of secure markets and data analysis.

RSA is still focused on authentication and encryption technology, but not in the corporate infrastructure. Security analysis is a promising area and RSA's fastest-growing sector. EMC Information Security Division RSA has announced a new reference architecture developed with pivotal to help businesses improve security analytics flexibility, enhance security analytics, and lay the groundwork for broader it analytics investments.

RSA Security analysis utilizes open source data warehouses based on Hadoop to help customers make the most of the innovations from the Hadoop ecosystem. By working with Pivotal, RSA can provide customers with a set of the most complete analysis tools available on the market. RSA builds a more secure computing environment based on Pivotal's large data expertise. Security analysis Large data Reference Architecture is a forward-looking guide for enterprises, and enterprises can now use complex data and analysis methods to better repel security threats.

Large data is one of the most important trends in the IT field, but it is still confusing to see which technologies are used to get the maximum value from these discrete sources of information. From the perspective of information security, new data centers produce a wealth of data about themselves that can help improve security, usability, performance, and efficiency, but they are often in islands of data that are difficult to correlate and analyze. The collaboration between RSA and Pivotal is also instructive not only for companies seeking to enhance their security capabilities, but for those who want to extend their large data strategy beyond the security realm.

As a subsidiary of EMC, Pivotal assumes EMC's vision for large data, next-generation databases, and PAAs (Platform-service). When pivotal was established in April 2012, it assumed the task of forming an iron triangle with EMC and VMware, and pivotal was an important piece in Jotus strategic layout, and also a good interpretation of pivotal's Chinese meaning: Central. Independent operations may also require a process, but all the assets and technical results are integrated to create a wider and better product, which may be the best direction for pivotal development.

At the EMC2014 China Market Strategy Conference, EMC Global senior vice president and Greater China President Ye Chenghui many times referred to the so-called federated Model: EMC II (Information Infrastructure business), VMware and pivotal, from the underlying unified information management to the upper layer of cloud computing and virtualization architecture, To enterprise-wide data platforms and RSA security to form a bottom-up federated model and EMC strategic landscape. In this mode, EMC II, VMware, and pivotal each assume independent missions and have the freedom of execution.

The goal of pivotal is to create a realistic integrated platform for all technologies, but to allow customers to purchase the corresponding functional components for their particular needs. Pivotal's enterprise-class large data PAAs platform includes three tiers: the cloud infrastructure layer (including cloud Foundry), the large data infrastructure layer (including GemFire and Greenplum), the Application development infrastructure layer (including SpringSource and RABBITQ )。

Pivotal, general manager of the Greater China region Liuweiguang said that there are many open source platforms and friends of the cloud platform, but provide a relatively scarce data services, pivotal do is the application and software packaging and optimization, do not need the enterprise to purchase a separate Third-party software deployment to the platform.

The pivotal platform consolidates some of the best software assets from EMC and VMware and builds an infrastructure platform of various components, including the familiar Greenplum, Hadoop, Spring, and Cloudfoundry.