At SNW Europe this week I took some time to talk to Emulex about their OneCommand product. It’s been upgraded to version 2.0, which will be the subject of a post for another day, once I’ve had a chance to install and review it.
I also discussed the core of Emulex’s business, namely HBAs (Host [...]
As the vendor who introduced flash drives into traditional arrays some 2+ years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised that EMC has released an all-flash version of its mid-range array, the VNX. The new device, codenamed VNX5500-F can support up to 250 200GB drives for a maximum all-flash capacity of 50TB. EMC don’t say, [...]
This week I’ll be attending IP Expo, which has probably become the UK’s biggest IT event. You can find more details out at the IP Expo Website, but if you’re quick, entry is free.
I’ll be there both days and I’m pretty busy with vendor briefings, but if you are going, drop me [...]
There’s lots of news over the last 24 hours about the release of the latest Kindle device (the Kindle Fire) and yet another browser coming to the marketplace. The Fire will have it’s own browser, named Silk, using the analogy of silk cloth of being made up of many individual threads. Amazon Inc are claiming [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Last week I heard about a large organisation that experienced a double-disk failure on one of their storage arrays. As a result, major systems were down for nearly 8 hours. Double-disk failures (where a second disk fails within a RAID group while the first failed disk is being rebuilt) are rare occurrences but they can [...]
Yesterday’s post generated a few comments that focused on the cost and ease of use of the Chromebook. Now it’s time to put a data management spin onto it.
Today we keep our primary data either directly on our PC/laptop or on a file server. File server can mean many things; a home [...]
I’ve just been watching a discussion on the Google Chromebook on BBC Breakfast. Surprisingly the presenters had some half decent questions to ask Rory Cellan-Jones as he showed them the latest attempt by Google to grab a further hold on the IT market. But what makes Google think this [...]
Yesterday HDS announced (via this press release) their entry into the converged infrastructure market. The solution offerings go under the name Hitachi Unified Computing Platform and comprise reference architectures and orchestration software to bring the whole thing together. While I think it is a good thing that HDS are starting to deliver unified [...]
