Thanks to Glasshouse_Tech on Twitter for referencing this article. Should we be surprised that 15% of respondents had no idea what their storage utilisation was? Not really.
Firstly there’s the general wastage issue – discussed here.
Then there’s the issue with SRM tools - The SRM Conundrum.
Then there’s [...]
It’s clear from recent technology announcements that storage is moving towards being a commodity offering. Modular arrays are gaining in popularity as the underlying technology becomes more reliable. Look at the hard disk drive; SATA devices are now capable of 1.2 million hours MTBF. Vendors like 3Par, [...]
OK, I think it was cars the UK government were offering the discount on, not storage arrays. It goes like this; the government has set aside £300m – you trade in a car over 10 years old and get £2000 off the cost of a new one, half funded by the government. [...]
In a rollercoaster week for the storage industry, Broadcom have made an unsolicited offer to acquire Emulex at $9.25 a share. Read the press release here. Now this, the VMware announcement, Cisco’s UCS and EMC’s new V-Max array got me thinking. Is there any future for independent [...]
There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product. I’ve used it many times – it does the job. However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost (I mentioned this only a few weeks ago [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
So all the debate about IBM buying Sun Microsystems has counted for nothing. Oracle have stepped in and acquired the company for $9.50 a share in cash. Here’s the press release.
Now I only saw the news a few minutes ago but already my mind is racing. Firstly, Oracle doesn’t strike [...]
So, the announcements have started; EMC have unveiled their next-generation version of the Symmetrix high-end storage array family and it is called the V-Max. So I guess previous guesses about DMX-5 or DMX-V weren’t far off!
Naturally, the EMC PR machine is in full flow; blog posts are already up from the usual suspects:
Nirvanix is one of the companies at the forefront of offering cloud computing services. Their key products are based around the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN); data can be stored and retrieved using a number of client applications, one of which is the Nirvanix CloudNAS product. I’ve been reviewing the latest [...]
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