During one of the Intel presentations at the Developer Forum last week the presenter made the statement that Intel processors are deployed in 70%-80% of storage arrays shipped today. Initially this may seem like a surprise but on closer inspection, it’s pretty obvious to see that it’s probably an accurate statement. EMC converted to Xeon [...]
Continue Reading This Post →While I was at the Intel Developer Forum last week I recorded a podcast with Allyson Klein, Director of technology
Leadership marketing for the Data Center Group at Intel. You can find this and other podcasts here:
http://www.intel.com/design/chipchat.htm
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With yet another HDS/VAAI post coming out from Scott Lowe (here), the irrelevant debate continues as to who is in and who is out of VMware’s inner circle of trusted storage vendors. Previously my friend Stephen Foskett discussed HDS’s position regarding VMware integration in this [...]
Continue Reading This Post →A few months ago I received a test ioSafe SoloPro external disk drive. This heavyweight unit is designed to withstand fire and water and so could be used as a home backup device for the worst kind of catastrophe. For a few months I ran the device as a Time Machine backup for my main [...]
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I don’t talk about company acquisitions too often but I can’t let the purchase of BlueArc by HDS pass me by without adding my opinion. First of all, for those of you who don’t know, BlueArc sells NAS hardware which has been resold by HDS for some years under the HNAS brand. The hardware comes [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Next week I’m travelling again and will be in the San Francisco area for the week. For Tuesday & Wednesday I’m at the Intel IDF (http://www.intel.com/idf/) and for Thursday & Friday I’ll be attending Tech Field Day #8 (http://techfieldday.com/2011/tfd8/).
I’ve not attended an Intel event [...]
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I have to admit I was quite shocked to read on holiday that HP had decided to kill off the Touchpad and webOS after what can only be 2 months since launch. In fact at HP Discover 2011 in June, the Touchpad was centre-stage in all presentations, forming a consistent presentation layer for accessing Enterprise [...]
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