So HDS’s announcement has turned out to be a complete disappointment. What it’s not:
It’s not new hardware. It’s not providing more physical capacity. It’s not providing dynamic tiering. It’s not providing enhanced replication technology.
What is on offer is the ability to cluster USPs – a feature called Hitachi High Availability Manager. [...]
Well, I truly hope not. Let me just explain what I’m talking about and things may become a bit clearer.
HDS have started their viral marketing for an announcement being made on 27th May. Claus Mikkelsen’s latest blog entry asks us to guess what the announcement will be, based on an acronym of [...]
Day 2 of EMC World is here. The weather is awful – thunderstorms and lots of water everywhere. On the news this morning, they’d positioned a reporter by a large puddle, filming vehicles as they tried to get through a mere 6 inches of water. At least it was better than normal US TV.
So, [...]
Day 1 at this year’s EMC World is now over. Did we see any game changing new technology or focus? I don’t think so.
So for me the day kicked of with Joe Tucci’s keynote speech. Check it out here. It’s the first time I’ve seen Tucci speak and he doesn’t come across [...]
As I sit here at the start of EMC World Day 1, I’m pondering over some of the conversations of last night. The direction EMC are taking with V-Max, the Atmos product and Clariion makes me wonder if DMX could be classed as the last of the (EMC) monolithic storage arrays.
So, here’s the thinking. [...]
So EMC World is finally here. Things kicked off Sunday evening with registration, catching up with old and new friends and a mini-concert by the Gin Blossoms (a band, being British, I’d never heard of). Things went pretty much to form; everywhere was crowded, the food and drink queues were huge and a good time [...]
OK, I haven’t had a poll on the site for a while, so just for fun here’s one; who writes the best storage management software for their products? Answers on a postcard, or alternatively, just click on one of the buttons below. Answers in a week or so.
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Yes folks, if you’re an EMC customer and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few months, you’ll know that EMC World starts next week. I’ll be attending for the first time (under the guise of amateur blogger).
If you’re going, feel free to drop me a [...]
On more than one occasion I’ve discussed the idea of putting 2.5″ drives into mainstream storage arrays and asked the question why they’ve not been widely adopted. Probably the most common response has been to justify their non-adoption by quoting the lack of multiple suppliers for the technology.
Look in your storage [...]
EMC have just announced a new product – Storage Configuration Advisor (see the press release here). A quick review of the press release and the datasheet shows a remarkable similarity to Netapp’s SANScreen. Both products are pitched as datacentre automation tools – they monitor your configuration and highlight logical [...]
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