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.
I found the following article from last week’s “The Register” an interesting one:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/hp_and_violin_memory/
In it, Chris Mellor talks about HP producing an Oracle Exadata competitor by integrating the use of Violin Memory’s all-SSD storage array. Folks may remember that I predicted exactly this set up in the following post:
Here are a few pictures from last nights joint vBeers and StorageBeers in London. The weather was bad around London (although not too bad in London itself), so numbers were lower than could be expected. We were joined by Steve Duplessie and Calvin Zito as they were both in London attending an HP event. Hopefully [...]
Portakabin Modular Construction
I had a small discussion today with a few folks on Twitter that was a forerunner to a Wikibon “Peer Incite” discussion on whether RAID was still relevant or not (hence the title of this post). It seems to me that perhaps the Wikibon discussion was a good way to [...]
I was recently briefed on the latest Symantec Disaster Recovery Study (2010), the details of which can be found here. Some 1700 companies (of 5000 employees or more) were interviewed about various aspects of their backup environments. As usual with these kind of surveys, there were some interesting results (I [...]
This is a guest post from Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO and co-founder of Gluster Inc.
In the virtualization foot race, the server has clearly been playing the role of the hare, with storage—a.k.a., the tortoise—bringing up the rear. The technology innovation in server virtualization got a lengthy headstart on storage and has [...]
Chris Mellor recently speculated on Compellent and the additional horsepower of their new storage product releases – series 40 controllers with Storage Center 5.4. Over dinner last night, we discussed how various features could be integrated into the current architecture. Many of them are surprisingly easy to achieve (or so we [...]
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