You may have assumed from my previous post on VPLEX that I am negative towards the concept of storage federation. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, ever since I was involved in deploying ESX onto enterprise storage infrastructure (some 4 years ago), I’ve been waiting for the day true federation [...]
Those of you with relatively good memories will remember last year’s announcement from Hitachi/HDS, which at the time promised more than it delivered. In fact, the anagram posed by Claus Mikkelsen on his blog and used as part of the press release was “REGRADES OUR CLASSY TREATS” and should have translated to “STORAGE [...]
Despite my doubts about its usefulness, on my recent holiday in the US I purchased a shiny new iPad. OK, over the last few week’s I’ve talked about how I couldn’t see the point of the platform, but two things conspired against me; (a) I love technology (although I stop short of calling myself a [...]
I’m about to start a new series of posts discussing the whole process of Storage Management. I’m calling it the Four Pillars of Storage Management as there are 4 main components:
SERVICE – Offering of services to business customers via a service catalog and measuring the ability to deliver to the business through KPIs and [...]
I case you didn’t know, I’ve been on holiday since the beginning of April. I was expecting (after two weeks of rest and relaxation) to be heading off to a new and potentially challenging piece of work. Unfortunately that work is no longer there. Not only is the work not there but neither am I [...]
Not being a blades person “per-se”, I was looking forward to the lab session at HP Blades Day where we’d get to understand the physical hardware in more detail. The video here shows James Singer taking us through the hardware and explaining the basic concepts of how the it is constructed.
What shows through this video is [...]
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 [...]
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