This is the second of a series of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product. Previous post(s) can be found at:
Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part I
In the first post of this review, I explained [...]
This is the first of a number of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product.
Not everyone wants or can afford to buy dedicated storage arrays, especially in current climates. So if you don’t want to spend money on a bespoke storage solution, are there any other [...]
No doubt if you follow things on GestaltIT, you will know that the first Tech Field Day has been confirmed. Vendors baked in to present their products are (in no particular order): 3Par, Data Robotics Inc, MDS, Nirvanix, Ocarina Networks and [...]
I don’t talk about it much, however I work with a company called Storage Fusion, who sell SRA (Storage Resource Analysis), a tool for monitoring heterogenous storage environments.
The good news is that Storage Fusion have been nominated for a BCS award. I’m really pleased the product has a chance of [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about automated storage tiering (not least from myself) and there’s one piece of the puzzle I’m not completely sure has been explored in depth. Many of the posts refer to physically moving data between tiers of internal (or external) storage. In legacy environments where LUNs are comprised of [...]
So Storage Expo is over for another year. As usual it was the mix of meeting old friends, finding out who had moved to work with who and working out how early to head out to the pub!
For me, there were a number of interesting take aways:
SVC 5.0 – lots of [...]
Hmm, I’ve found a small bug with my Drobo which is making me slightly nervous. Have a look at the first graphic. I’ve exceeded a single 2TB logical drive in terms of capacity (as I now have two 2TB and two 1TB physical drives installed). In this instance the Drobo has created me a second logical drive, which [...]
So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it! All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”. It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved today using EMC’s Symmetrix Optimizer?
Hot Spots
EMC’s [...]
Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”. Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different.
Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following picture. This pretty much sums up [...]
Following on from yesterday’s announcement by 3Par, I’m wondering just where EMC is in the thin reclamation market. HDS have ZPR, which although working as a background collection process, does reclaim zeroed out blocks of data. I believe SVC has similar functionality too.
We all know that over time, Thin volumes transition back [...]
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