EMC Forum Top ten topics reveal storage trends

1, the cloud is everywhere

A year ago, EMC was still aggressively promoting the cloud. Now, the clouds are everywhere.

"No matter where you go, you'll hear people talking about clouds," said Frank Zappia, vice president of EMC, Franchzapia. Even my children are talking about clouds. The cloud has become one of the most used words in the IT industry today. ”

According to Gartner, Two-thirds of U.S. companies will adopt or focus on the cloud.

2, recession, what recession?

There are many areas of the storage industry that are impacting the current economy, but excluding EMC. According to Zapia, the company recorded record results in the Southern California region in 2010.

Zapia said: "Our annual growth rate reached 35%." ”

This was also reflected in the number of participants in the Forum assembly, with the number of participants increased from more than 900 last year to more than 1100 people.

3, backup is still important

The backup business may not be as appealing as it used to be, but it is still one of EMCs core businesses. At this year's EMC Forum meeting, one-fifth of the agenda is related to backup. The Forum assembly includes a number of backup issues, such as the development of backup from tape to disk, replication, data de-duplication, and where various backup and recovery solutions will evolve. For example, data domain and Avamar technologies will be integrated into Networker backup software to provide a broader data recovery product.

4, the massive data will become bigger

Mass data will become larger. EMC calls it data flooding, and it is looking for ways to build a comprehensive, massive data strategy by acquiring Greenplum transactions.

"Information in the enterprise will grow 50 times times in the last decade," said Bill Teuber, vice chairman of EMC Buerteuber. ”

5, the key to manage massive data is to find information

Frank Hauck, President of VCE, a consortium of EMC, Cisco, VMware and Intel, says the key to managing massive amounts of data is finding information.

"Managing massive data storage is like finding a needle in a haystack," Hulk said. ”

In other words, it doesn't matter how big a database is, it's important to find the information the user needs from a massive amount of data, and it must be fast to find information.

6. Hadoop

EMC says it provides the only Web site in the market for massive data analysis software. This includes greenplum databases, Greenplum data computing devices, and collaborative platforms that are interested in data. Any analysis application software or engine can be placed on this platform. In addition, it includes an open-source element called Greenplum Hadoop, open source as a database of unstructured data. Hadoop helps store and analyze massive amounts of data, thereby reducing the time required to draw conclusions. EMC clearly has great expectations for Greenplum as the cornerstone of its massive data strategy. Hadoop will play a very important role in EMC's massive data strategy.

7. Support Cloud

Part of the reason EMC is aggressively promoting the cloud is that it intends to be a major supplier of basic or at least some of the cloud storage services. Similarly, it intends to build the Symmetrix platform into a database of Izumo data. However, this does not refer to an older Symmetrix with a large volume of disk consolidation. It is comprised of the latest version of Symmetrix Vmax arrays and VNX unified storage technologies.

If several systems are integrated together, the available protected capacity of the Symmetrix Vmax can be extended to several PB. This array utilizes virtualization to consolidate workloads and store more data in footprint areas smaller than traditional arrays. It is available with flash disks, Fibre Channel, and SATA hard drives.

In addition, it intends to build its VNX unified storage product into a core cloud component. This can be used for multi-protocol modules and file-based storage. So, while the disk array is in all of the capabilities, EMC still integrates it with virtualization technology, allowing them to operate flexibly on the cloud platform.

8, large-scale products are coming to market

Massive data may continue to be discussed, but large devices will soon be available. Sales of storage devices, servers and networked hardware will remain at a relatively stable level over the next few years, according to IDC. One of the areas of hardware sales is large devices, which embody the integration of storage devices, servers, and networking devices.

Oracle, of course, is a giant in the field, and there are now two large devices that sell well in the market. Hewlett-Packard launched a converged product, and VCE a combination of several industry giants. VCE's vblock include blades, storage devices, networking, virtualization, and controlled layers.

"Instead of buying individual components and assembling them together, you might as well buy a large, integrated device," Hulk said. ”

9, it employment market prospects optimistic

Although the current job market is worrying, it does not seem to be affected. According to data from Teubert, the global IT industry will grow from 15 million in 2010 to 22 million by 2020.

Teubert said: "You will certainly have a job, but you may become more and more busy, because the increase in personnel is certainly not the speed of the data you need to manage the growth rate." ”

10. EMC leads the market

Over the past year or two, EMC has been talking about developing to the cloud. It's not just a slogan (it's certainly a very effective slogan), and EMC has been promoting cloud computing since 2004. By 2008, EMC had virtualized 35% of the infrastructure. Now the proportion of EMC infrastructure virtualization is 75%, which is expected to reach 85% by the end of the year.

"This has fundamentally changed the cost of it," Teubert said. We save tens of millions of dollars by moving data from the server to a virtualized platform. ”