Archive for September 24th, 2007
PSSST….Green Storage
HDS announced today a few amendments to the AMS/WMS range. The most interesting is the apparent ability to power down drives which are not in use a-la-Copan.
According to the press release above, the drives can be powered down by the user as necessary, which presents some interesting questions. Firstly,...
September 24th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
NTFS Update
I did some more work on my NTFS issue on Friday. As previously mentioned, I was seeing NTFS filesystems with large levels of fragmentation even after drives were compressed.
The answer turns out to be quite simple; Windows doesn’t consolidate the free space blocks which accumulate as files are...
September 24th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More
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New White Papers
September 1, 2010 23:09
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3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
August 31, 2010 10:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
August 27, 2010 17:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
August 24, 2010 19:08
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HP Challenges Dell for 3Par
August 23, 2010 12:08
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Hermann: Chris, I think these articles give a good indication what Fujitsu is heading for http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201...
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Chris Evans: Hermann, thanks for bringing that one up. Is there a specific Fujitsu offering or are you just assuming they have the c...
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Hermann: there is another sleeping giant who has all the assets in place. FUJITSU own Servers (PRIMERGY), own storage (ETER...
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Martin G: NetApp are a polyamorous company as is to be expected with the West-Coast roots. Of course if we take 'Virtually Anythin...
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Chris Evans: Martin You're right, I hadn't explicitly mentioned that partnership. I think the VCE (VMware, Cisco, EMC) partnership ...
- BRCD seems to be seeing an uptick today - up 7.6% already - hoping Dell are on the rebound?
- @Storagezilla I didn't think there were any EVA folks any more (natural selection)
- Erm @3parfarley we expect the first SWCSA to be with @hpstorageguy
- @SteveTodd completely! My record was about 5 peas at the same time.
- I have just eaten a bag of wasabi peas and have what I can only describe as gut ache.
- RT @Storagezilla: Time to go around the horn: 3Par at $2.4B Good deal/Bad deal? (Choose one and retweet.) <- good for 3par bad for purchaser
- @SEPATONJay @storagezilla I guess it's a case of "we will offer more money but we want more consequences if we back out"
- @Storagezilla so that implies only the old agreement is still in place?
- @Storagezilla 3Par's statement doesn't make sense. The reseller agreement is part of revised Dell proposal which they said unacceptable
- [shared] Creation was Godless says Hawking: There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe,... http://bbc.in/9PNCUW
