Archive for April, 2009

Enterprise Computing: 63% Of Firms Failing to Manage Storage Resources

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...
April 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I

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...
April 28th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Keep Your Storage Array for 10 Years And Get a £2000 Tradein

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.  Apart from the obvious options...
April 24th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is It The End for Independent HBA Vendors?

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 HBA...
April 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HDS Switches On Virtualisation For Free

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 on this...
April 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: VMware Announce vSphere 4

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...
April 21st, 2009 | Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Oracle to Buy Sun Microsystems

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...
April 20th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Enterprise Computing: EMC Announced Next Generation V-Max Architecture

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...
April 14th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: Nirvanix CloudNAS

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...
April 8th, 2009 | Cloud computing | Read More

Personal Computing: DroboPro – Drobo Grows Up

There’s a new Drobo out!   The Drobo range has been expanded with the release of the DroboPro, an 8-drive big brother to the Drobo “classic”.  The new model is being touted as a “business class storage array” and looks very interesting for the basic price tag of $1299...
April 7th, 2009 | Personal Computing | Read More
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