Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye. Here’s a brief paragraph on them.
SGI Acquires COPAN Systems
In fact to be more precise, SGI have acquired some of the assets of COPAN and left the liabilities behind for a mere $2 million in cash (press release). The [...]
Here’s my roundup of all the posts, pictures, video and comments from the HP Blades Tech Day
Tweets
The official hashtag for the event was #hpbladesday with hundreds of tweets being generated from the start of the Tech Day until now.
Bloggers’ Posts
By name order, here are the relevant posts from each [...]
I’ve just about got my home lab fully organised; here’s a quick summary of what I have in place.
Storage
I’ve four main storage devices, DroboPro, Iomega ix4-200D (two) and an EMC CLARiiON CX-700. This gives me NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity options on any testing I’m performing. The storage is broken down as follows:
DroboPro [...]
Day 2 of HP Blades Day took place in a new location – the Customer Experience Centre. This was due to issues with Wifi on day 1, now resolved in our new location. Order of the day was:
Review of the previous day’s presentations with a quick question & answer session Presentation on Client Virtualisation [...]
I’ve just been reading Greg Knieriemen’s post over at iknerd.com on the ending of Sun/Oracle’s OEM agreement with Hitachi to resell their high end storage arrays. On the one hand I’m surprised by the announcement; on the other I’m not.
Sun have resold Hitachi for some time under the 9990V and 9985V [...]
HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was. Here’s a summary of the day’s activities:
Overview of ISB (Infrastructure Software and Blades) from Gary Thome Partner Presentation from Mark Gonzalez Overview of Virtual Connect from Mike Kendall BladeSystem lab (hands on overview of the hardware) from [...]
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