Archive for April, 2007

What's your favorite fruit? EMC versus HDS

Nigel has posted the age old question, which is best EMC or HDS? For those who watch Harry Hill - there’s only one way to sort it out – fiiiiight! But seriously, I have been working with both EMC and HDS for the last 6 years on large scale deployments and you can bet I have my opinion –...
April 25th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Optimisation tools

Large disk arrays can suffer from an imbalance of data across their RAID/parity groups. This is inevitable even if you plan your LUN allocation as data profiles change over time and storage is allocated and de-allocated. So, tools are available. Think of EMC Optimizer, HDS Cruise Control and Volume...
April 24th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Goodbye ASNP

It’s all over. ASNP is no more. Not really a surprise as it stood for nothing useful. With 2500 members, it could have been so much more, however I think it won’t be missed. _uacct = “UA-1104321-2″; urchinTracker();
April 24th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Kryptonite Discovered!

Totally off post but fantastic non the less!! Kryptonite Discovered _uacct = “UA-1104321-2″; urchinTracker();
April 24th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Hurrah for EMC

Hurrah! EMC has implemented SMI-S v1.2 in ControlCenter and DMX/Clariion (although the reference on the SNIA website seems to relate to SMI-S v1.1). Actually it seems that you need ECC v6.0 (not out yet and likely to be a mother of an upgrade from the current version) and I’d imagine the array...
April 23rd, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Simulator Update

Following a few comments on the previous simulator post, it doesn’t look like there are any more simulators out there for general use. If anyone does know – feel free to comment! _uacct = “UA-1104321-2″; urchinTracker();
April 23rd, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

The Power Question

I’ve seen a lot of discussion (and I think a bit of a theme at SNW) on power consumption in datacentres. Obviously the subjects of global warming and increased energy prices have put the subject at the centre of focus. But I think when datacentres are being built, there isn’t an issue....
April 18th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Another Great Idea

I’ve another great idea for a software product (I have these ideas from time to time, but converting them into reality always proves difficult). So, museum environments for backups. They’re going to be a major headache going forward, even more than they are today as there are more demands...
April 17th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage as a commodity

I just read a comment over at Zerowait regarding Netapp and proprietary hardware. It reminded me of something I was thinking about recently on the commoditisation of storage. There’s nothing worse to my mind than a storage vendor who has no competition. Inevitably in some organisations that situation...
April 17th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

AoE/FCoE/iSCSI

Robin harris discusses AoE from Coraid. I looked at this last year (reminder) as I saw it as a great way to get a FC/iSCSI solution at a low cost. However, before everyone rips out their FC SANs and runs to put an Ethernet solution in place, take one step back and consider the issues. Fibre Channel...
April 13th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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