Principal Accounting Officer, Vice President & Corporate Controller, Vericel
Search every verified Jonathan Siegal interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Jonathan Siegal, then with EMC's Core Technologies Group, discussed product announcements and strategy at EMC World 2014 and 2015. In 2014, he highlighted new capabilities for the VNX and V-Max platforms, including bringing data-at-rest encryption from V-Max to VNX2 as a non-disruptive software upgrade. He also described Project Liberty, a software-defined version of VNX that could be deployed on commodity hardware or in the cloud. In 2015, Siegal discussed the DD 9500 backup appliance, which he said delivered 1.6 times the performance and four times the scalability of competitors, and emphasized that the company's data protection strategy was centered on software, including DD 5.6 and ProtectPoint. He also referenced Project Falcon, a software-only version of Data Domain for remote offices and cloud providers. Siegal stated that the company's approach was to provide a best-of-breed portfolio integrated through automation, with Viper as a unified interface, to simplify infrastructure for customers managing hybrid cloud environments.
“When we introduced the V-Max 3 last fall, it was the first and still is the Enterprise data service platform. We've separated the Enterprise data services software from the underlying platform, enabling us to extend trusted data services like SRDF synchronous replication and ProtectPoint to other platforms and storage...”
“What we're giving customers, and one of the key differentiators of V-Max 3, is enabling them to manage their infrastructure as a service, ensuring performance, data protection, and availability levels for workloads running behind it.”
“Data protection everywhere means customers deploy and consume data and applications in various ways—traditional on-premise, virtualized infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and born-in-the-cloud environments. We must provide data protection solutions across this entire spectrum.”
“We announced the new DD 9500, which resets the bar for performance and scalability in purpose-built backup appliances. It delivers 1.6 times the performance and 4 times the scalability of our closest competitors.”
“The secret sauce of everything we're doing with data protection is about software. We've made announcements like DD 5.6 with a 16% performance boost, expanded ecosystem support for big data with Hadoop and NoSQL, and introduced ProtectPoint for direct integration from primary to protection storage.”
“Project Falcon is a preview of a software-only version of Data Domain, enabling rapid deployment in remote offices, branch offices, and cloud service providers, supporting cloud bursting for data protection.”
“We announced Project Liberty, a virtualized version of VNX Community Edition available for free, allowing customers to spin up virtualized versions for nonproduction purposes, speeding application development cycles and testing replication with the same user experience.”
“We're helping customers manage workloads with different requirements for performance, availability, and cost-effectiveness by leveraging our portfolio—smaller customers might use VNX, larger ones V-Max or XtremIO, all integrated and automated with Viper as the user interface and service catalog.”
“At the end of the day, there's no silver bullet for application workloads. We have a best-of-breed portfolio strategy with Extreme, V-Max, VNX, and more, and the key is around automation and integration to simplify infrastructure for customers.”
“We've made a number of great announcements over the past week on both our VNX platforms and the mid-range as well as V-Max high-end platforms. On the VNX side, we've taken a lot of the Enterprise capabilities, for example data-at-rest encryption from our V-Max and brought it down to our VNX2 customers as a non-disrupti...”
“On the V-Max side, we've introduced Flash Boost which gives our customers the ability to improve performance for read-intensive applications by directly serving those applications in that IO from Flash. We've also come out with new packages called Flash Power Packs which enable customers to more cost-effectively purcha...”
“We're enabling customers to both improve their service levels and do so at a cost-effective manner for deploying all-flash pools within the array.”
“We announced Project Liberty, which is about providing new levels of freedom for our customers to deploy VNX-like software-defined capabilities in new models such as spinning up a new VM on commodity hardware, running it in the cloud, or running a virtualized software version of VNX at a remote site.”
“A big theme for us is all around simplicity—managing your storage by business process. Many of our customers are looking to manage more terabytes with fewer people and simpler business processes.”
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