Archive for October, 2007

CU Free

Does anyone use CU Free? Here’s the reason for my question. I’ve just implemented a migration from a pair of 9980V and 9970Vs to a single USP in one site and a 9970V and 9980V remaining in the other site. All of the MCU->RCU relationships (4 of them) are being used between the USP and...
October 31st, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Analysis: Seagate

This is the first of a series of posts looking at storage companies and their investment potential. ** DISCLAIMER: This and related blog entries are for fun only and do not represent investment advice. You should make your own opinions on investments or consult a financial adviser ** Background Seagate’s...
October 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage Stocks

Josh’s recent posts have reminded me of a little piece of work I started but didn’t finish a few weeks ago. I’ve been compiling a list of storage companies which are publicly traded and trying to determine which I feel are value for money as an investment. ** DISCLAIMER ** This blog...
October 29th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage Expo

Yesterday and today is Storage Expo in the UK. I haven’t bothered to visit for a few years but I decided to go this year and see if things have changed. I even took my camera with the thought of taking a few pictures. Unfortunately I was less than impressed. Yes it was a good opportunity to...
October 18th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

New Celerra Simulator

Thanks to all those who drew my attention to the new version of the Celerra Simulator. EMC have done the right thing and made this version freely downloadable to anyone with a Powerlink account. This is a good thing as it gives everyone a chance to have a go. Just go into Powerlink and search on...
October 16th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Disk Sizes Continue to Dazzle

HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) announced yesterday that they have managed to further miniaturise the drive heads they use in the hard disk drives. I hadn’t realised exactly how small these recording heads were; apparently 2000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Called “current...
October 15th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Your Data on a Knife Edge

I read this interesting article on the BBC website today. It talks about how two European scientists (Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg) have won the Nobel prize for physics for GMR (giant magnetoresistance). This technology has enabled hard drives to be made smaller and to hold more data. What I liked...
October 10th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage VMotion

I read the following interesting news release from VMware today. It covers lots of new features for the future release (3.5) of VMware but the one that caught my eye discusses a new feature called VMware Storage VMotion. This feature will apparently allow the migration of a VMware virtual disk between...
October 8th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

SPC

According to Wikipedia, lightning can travel at a speed of 100,000 MPH, however I think storage vendors are even faster than lightning when it comes to highlighting or dissing the competition. Mere microseconds after reading Claus Mikkelsen’s blog on the USP-V SPC figures, there are posts from...
October 3rd, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More