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I think we'll get a big lift with SAP when DSSD comes to market. Its a great match for HANA workloads.

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at @emcworld you saw the CEO of SAP with Joe Tucci very telling on that partnership

Bert Latamore

Really? Last month at Discover HP execs were bragging about having the highest performance with SAP Hana. Does the new XtremIO beat that?

new #XtremIO 3.0 snaps can consolidate many landscapes in less images. Big impact for existing customers.

Completely agree - #DSSD will #RedefinePossible with #HANA - much anticipated by #SAP and customers

@BertLatamore DSSD will be a new class of service for #HANA and other in-memory apps. Not in the #AFA class.

Andy Sitison

@jburton @kensaul With XtremIO VMAX3, DSSD future and Data Protection Announcments, EMC is putting out waves of new tech that is very complementary for SAP workloads across the market

I think #ProtectPoint will also help many #SAP customers transform data protection

in memory DB's need BIG bandwidth ... server side flash with direct (PCIe) connect will win over any array IMHO

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Andy Sitison

memory tiering will change the In-memory Hi-perf compute equation. We will #RedefinePossible... #SAP

Kennedy Saul

@ASitison Yes, Performance and Tiering will be matched with the right #SAP workloads - #RedefinePossible, again!!

Henrik Wagner

Interesting to see #SAP clients work with vendors w the right balance of execution ability and vision = EMC

John Furrier52

Can you explain what a Data Lake is and why customers want it?

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I prefer to call it an "ocean" but that is not taking hold..lakes sound so small and not dynamic

Tim Crawford

Is this the "nicer" version of Data Landfill?

Jeff Frick

Lake is not the right word.

David Silvestri

Better than Data Pond

@JeffFrick oceans have currents; streams too; lakes are stagant that is #DWBI of old

Bert Latamore

Agree. I don't like "data lake" but it seems to be the term people are using.

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Tony Foster

Think of the great lakes...

Chris M Evans

@BertLatamore I didn't like "Big Data" but there we are, we're stuck with them unless we invent them!

Hans De Leenheer

"data leak" :)

I think for many companies that can't analyze their data today, the dormant "lake" is a good image

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John F. Kim

And better than data teapot or data bathtub

got to this one late.

have heard this thing called a "Data Landing Zone" as well

folks want to dump data into HDFS and not go through the data warehouse ETL hell.

dump it, map reduce it, analyze it. More stuff in one place... better information. Retailers, banks are leading edge

@jburton are you happy with your decision 4yrs ago with the them Cloud Meets Big Data? Whats met your expectation and what didn't?

Big Data Jailhouse?

And who says a lake is small? The Caspian Sea is considered the largest lake in the world! ;-)

@jburton sounds like aircraft carrier on the "ocean" - i'm not giving up on my meme of data ocean :-)

Jim Canto

I don't think a terrestrial oriented metaphor can do data justice.

Crowd Captain35

@jburton do you have a question you would like to ask the crowd? Post it we will try to answer

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If you were at EMC and ran products what would you do with this portfolio ?

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David Silvestri

standardize the interfaces. Unisphere is a good first step. Coming up with a standardized CLI would be great

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Chris M Evans

Tough question - I'd look to harmonise the features/functionality where possible and simplify. VMAX & VNX could move to a single platform for instance.

Chris M Evans

I would also focus on (native) data mobility - ability to move objects/files/LUNS between platforms to make ViPR truly useful.

David Silvestri

Only reason VNX and VMAX haven't merged is customer install base. If you could bring Flare and Enginuity together, or hide it behind an interface, would be easier.