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From the monthly archives: October 2009

Enterprise Computing: 3Par Thin Enhancements

By Chris M Evans On October 12, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Uncategorized

3Par today took the opportunity at SNW USA to announce some enhancements to their thin provisioning technology. The new features are:

Thin Conversion. Slims down “stout” storage volumes as they are moved to a thin environment. Thin Copy Reclamation. Reclaims unused space from snapshot or replicated volumes. Thin Reclamation for Veritas [...]

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Cloud Computing: Block-Based Storage

By Chris M Evans On October 8, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Cloud, GestaltIT

A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could prove tricky and why without an [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Symantec FileStore

By Chris M Evans On October 5, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Uncategorized

Today Symantec are announcing their scalable NAS product called FileStore. This simple appliance claims to offer linear scaling for up to 2PB of storage per cluster, leveraging all the benefits of the Veritas storage products we’ve come to know and love over the years. But what chance has this [...]

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