Storage Virtualization Meets Software Defined Storage: EMC ViPR 1.0

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

EMC recently GA’d a first version of ViPR. Many storage folks are not still clear about what ViPR is all about.  Is it just storage virtualization repackaged to augment EMC’s physical infrastructure solution features this time?  Is it a shining new example of Software Defined Storage?  Is it unified storage, management, and data services ala private cloud? What is going on here?

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