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I finally got the latest and greatest version of Rainfinity VE installed in our lab.  I’ve been messing around with the freeware/demo version of this for a few weeks and have been pretty impressed with its ease of use and ease of installation.  I put together a brief 10 minute demo of what the product [...]

This past week I played around with getting Rainfinity/VE up and running in our lab.  Rainfinity/VE is EMC’s latest file management appliance that can now be run as a vm in your VMware environment.  I was hoping we would have the latest, full version release of the software but I had to settle for a [...]

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the title, but I bet it got your attention.  Don’t worry it’s nothing that requires a trip to the clinic or a shot of penicillin.  In fact, it’s a good thing.  “VE” is techno-acronym for Virtual Edition and is used to identify products that either run as a VM or virtual [...]

Recently EMC released Rainfinity FMA/VE.  VE stands for Virtual Edition.  So now instead of a hardware/appliance based file management and archiving platform you can run it as a VM in your existing VMware environment.  You can use FMA/VE to archive older data from you NAS to cheaper tiers of storage or a CAS device like [...]

Let’s continue on our discussion of the Rainfinity offerings from EMC!  Here at Varrow we love all things virtualization and the GFV, Global File Virtualization, makes it even better.  The Rainfinity GFV offering from EMC allows you to virtualize that back-end NAS storage and obscure the layout from the end users.  With the GFV you [...]

This post will be the first of several where I discuss the different Rainfinity offerings from EMC.  In the effort of continuing their strategy of moving to a complete data management company EMC acquired Rainfinity in August of 2005.  Rainfinity was already well known as providing excellent products to help organizations manage their data.
The three [...]