Vodafone (UK mobile phone network) are blaming today’s outage to a large number of their customers on a break-in at their data centre in Basingstoke. There are no specific press releases on their website (this link fails badly) however comments on Twitter indicate tens of thousands of customers may be affected.
In the world of x86 server virtualization, there’s no doubt that VMware’s vSphere dominates. This 2010 IDC virtualization report shows VMware as the only company in the upper right segment of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.
However Citrix (with Xen Server) and Microsoft (with Hyper-V) are close behind. [...]
I’m not really a Command Line Guy (although I have no problem with scripting) but since the days of ISPF, I’ve preferred to use GUIs. So following up on my post last week I thought it would be nice to have a GUI version of my iSCSI checker. You can [...]
Seems like Chris Mellor has struck a raw nerve with EMC and in particular Chad Sakac over this article he wrote for The Register. Unfortunately Chad’s response makes him appear more like a spoilt child than a marketing professional who’s prepared to take the rough with the smooth in IT marketing. Of [...]
Today Data Robotics (Drobo) are announcing a new range of storage devices specifically targeted at business customers. However this is a market that already has many players; what are they offering and how will they fare in this already competitive market?
New Devices
First of all, let’s take a look at [...]
I’ve been spending some time recently working with Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualisation platform and one of the major hassles I’ve experienced is having to use the command line rather than GUI for certain functions. If you’re not aware, Windows 2008 Core is a stripped down version of a standard Windows 2008 Server deployment and so has no GUI interface. That makes administering features such as iSCSI a little more challenging.
In a recent post (this one on SRM), Wayne M Adams from SNIA took the time to comment as to why he believed SMI-S is alive and well. Rather than simply reply on that comment thread, I thought I would take the time to put together a summary of why SMI-S (in my opinion) hasn’t worked and will never work in the current incarnation.
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