Why EMC Continues Leading the Growing Storage Market

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December 31, 2011 | Comments (3)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which Eric Bleeker, senior technology analyst, and Brandon Ragan, systems engineer, discuss topics around the investing world.

In today's edition, Eric talks to Brandon to get a better feel for how the Fool is handling its growing storage needs. The company recently went with EMC when upgrading its storage area network, which Brandon explains was a function of ease of maintenance and interoperability with Cisco and VMware.

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Report this Comment On January 01, 2012, at 12:21 PM, mhonarvar wrote:

another video?
trying to go viral on Youtube or something?
Report this Comment On January 03, 2012, at 2:18 PM, storagedork wrote:

With all due respect to your Systems Engineer, EMC's "Unified Storage" platform is a knock-off of the story NetApp has been telling for years. EMC cobbled together its disparate storage systems into the VNX line, in an attempt to provide a response to the true unified storage platform of NetApp Data ONTAP. NetApp offers both NAS and block storage on all of its storage platforms; from its entry-level systems to its high-end platforms. By relegating NetApp storage to the role of a NAS platform, fool.com did not make full use of NetApp technology. What was actually being said in this interview, in my opinion, is that fool.com admins' were familiar with EMC storage and decided to standardize on it because it was more familiar to them. In reality, EMC's technology is not better. It is not cheaper. That's why NetApp continues to take market share from EMC; particularly in thr virtualization space. I'm sure the EMC sales rep dropped his pants in exchange for this video and the bragging rights to say that they ripped out NetApp storage. Next time, please tell the complete story.
Report this Comment On January 10, 2012, at 3:00 PM, BillTstorageco wrote:

storagedork please tell your complete story as well. If I were to run at block based benchmark test on a fas6280 and compare the results to that of a similarly configured vnx7500, which would you select? NetApp's strength is NAS and EMC's VNX is Block and File without a performance compromise on the high end. In my opinion, the choice was simple. It's also the reason NetApp purchased LSI's Engenio External Storage Systems Business.

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