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TECHNOLOGY

that , we haul our existing technology form the new world and make it compatible with the old-world , this is tough , as it forces us to rethink how we architect , rethink how we platform for new and existing applications and data sets , and it ’ s all about forward evolution ,… a kind of loving and leaving going on at the same time ”.

This is indeed all good and well . But what of the investment already made in the Datacenter and where is the focus from a Dell EMC point of view here ? “ It ’ s in the application ” says O ’ Regan . “ it ’ s all about the Application - So a good example of this would be when we mobilize storage going forward – so , we now have access to and visibility of all of this centralized data , where am I going to store all of this information . First thoughts are , well I have a state of the art Storage Area Network , perhaps built on VMAX architecture or similar , this is the obvious place to store & scale the information – so , you can do this , but most of the mobile or new apps that you ’ re now building , require S3 or Object interfaces , or restful API . So now you ’ re thinking , do I throw out my Traditional Scale Up Storage System to make room from my new Scale out environment ? Well … No – we say that you deploy your new scale out engineering and absolutely move some existing workloads from the old world into the new , however , critical apps that were written to a scale up on a vertical structure will remain on the “ Monolith ” on the scale UP architecture that was specifically designed to handle these workloads . This is a disruptive evolution as you now have new architecture that is compatible with your old world platform and you can roadmap your next “ Mobile workload ” deployment onto the new Scale Out platform while still servicing the Traditional Apps accordingly He also has projections that

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