What an interesting and extremely busy day the first day of the HP StorageWorks Tech Day 2010 proved to be. The day was a mixture of vision and product demos, providing both the high level and detailed view of current technology and future plans.
In preparation for tomorrow’s events, I thought it would be useful to summarise how the HP SAN products fit into some kind of roadmap. This is a first draft based on how I see things today. The roadmap is fairly self explanatory, but let me add a few comments.
XP24000 – definitely an [...]
Here I am sitting in the airport waiting for my flight to Houston, which apparently is severely overbooked. I guess the airlines are profiting from the BA cabin crew strike and filling their planes to capacity. There are a lot of BA aircraft on the ground at Heathrow this morning, so clearly the strike is [...]
I’ve had my DroboPro for some time now and initially I had mixed results with it. Although I was aware of the single connection to an iSCSI target restriction, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of vmfs support within the Drobo operating system, especially as the product sells itself on understanding the filesystem format. My next [...]
I’ve had my DroboPro for some time now and initially I had mixed results with it. Although I was aware of the single connection to an iSCSI target restriction, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of vmfs support within the Drobo operating system, especially as the product sells itself on understanding the filesystem format. My next [...]
Finally I’ve managed to post here the first of a number of video clips from the recent HP Blades Day. Paul Perez discusses my question regarding the management of the range of (somewhat) disparate storage technologies HP have acquired over recent years. I’m looking forward to discovering more about:
The converged management framework and “on-ramp”. [...]
The next Gestalt IT Field Day will be held in Boston between 8-9 April 2010. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend, however lots of great people will, including the following already confirmed:
I took part in a podcast last night that discussed the XIV platform. One of the “key features” of XIV is the wide striping of data across all spindles. It’s a concept we’re seeing more and more in contemporary storage hardware architectures and one that’s being shoe-horned into older storage arrays too. Have you ever [...]
Hu Yoshida has an interesting view on his recent post discussing storage utilisation rates. His concluding remark suggests running at a maximum of 60% utilisation – even with Dynamic Provisioning. Hu, you must be joking, right?
Point 1: I’ve paid for my 100% of storage and I’m going to use it. I don’t [...]
I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening. For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food. Now free beer is good, however I’m not sure it’s good enough to make me want [...]
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