I took part in a podcast last night that discussed the XIV platform. One of the “key features” of XIV is the wide striping of data across all spindles. It’s a concept we’re seeing more and more in contemporary storage hardware architectures and one that’s being shoe-horned into older storage arrays too. Have you ever [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Some of you may be aware that I’m heading to Houston today for an HP sponsored field day looking at blade technology. I have to admit that blades are not my area of speciality, in fact I know precious little about them other than the obvious. Having said that, this is a time to start [...]
I had a conversation last week with a PR company doing research for Netapp. This followed just after Netapp released their Q4 results, with revenue exceeding expectations at just over $1 billion. It’s amazing how in the space of less than 20 years they have developed from nothing to a company selling a single $4 [...]
Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years.
P2000 G3 MSA (Modular Smart Array) System
I’ve not been a particular fan of [...]
They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what happened.
Failing Disk
I [...]
In my first review of the DroboPro, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t access the ‘Pro from the Drobo Dashboard when the device is serving out iSCSI LUNs across the IP connection. This restriction is a serious flaw, as it requires taking the DroboPro down and off the network in order to [...]
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