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EMC used the final general session at the EMC World 2016 conference to preview a forthcoming member of its Isilon storage family.

The 'data lake' concept - storing as much as possible of an organisation's data in one system - seems to be gaining traction. The idea is that it provides economies of scale through consolidation thanks to better utilisation and simpler management, as well as allowing the data to be used for more purposes without duplication.

Storage vendor EMC reckons its latest Isilon systems - "the workhorse for the file environment" - are the world's fastest scale-out NAS units, and the place to locate your organisation's 'data lake'.

There aren't many businesses that generate as much as 100TB of data in a week, but one that does has chosen EMC's Isilon storage to handle the load.

Fox Sports' new studio will run on Vblock converged infrastructure to implement an all-digital workflow.

CIOs who have traditionally dividing their data stores into hot and cold depending on its age have to radically rethink their approach if they are not to miss out on the competitive benefits of big data.