It’s probably fair to say that data migration is one of the most tedious tasks in storage management. Moving data from one array to another, simply to decommission a piece of hardware or for load and capacity balancing, doesn’t ever inspire me. But it’s a necessary evil and one I’ve done many times. Unless the [...]
Yesterday EMC finally revealed the details on their not-so-secret Lightning and Thunder flash projects. Fortunately this launch event didn’t include cramming small people into minis or firing Chad Sakac out of a cannon, but was more focused on the market and products EMC are bringing to it. There was also a large amount of Twitter [...]
Last month I briefly took part in Nekkid Tech Podcast #14. This was recorded in London at Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese Pub on Fleet Street. The evening itself was quite entertaining and loud as you can hear from the podcast. Greg and Ed interviewed a number of the Dell management team on what [...]
It’s never a good day at the office when your shares drop by 20% in a single day. However the relentless drive to produce better results quarter-on-quarter is what the US stock markets demand of publicly listed companies such as Fusion-IO. Poor results this week saw their shares punished by a [...]
As I write this post, 2012 is already 6.3% completed. So, for the remaining 93.7% of the year, what can we expect the storage themes to be? What will companies be focused on and what can we expect from the vendors?
Data Reduction
The recent flooding in Thailand has had everyone on high alert about [...]
Storagezilla calls out hard disk availability in his recent post. In fact, I discussed the subject of drive prices last week with James Carter of Touchdown PR on my way to SNW Europe. James highlighted he was seeing prices on standard drives having doubled recently.
I went back and looked [...]
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, [...]
One of the attendees at TFD#8 was SolidFire Inc, another startup company focusing on selling entirely solid-state disk arrays. As you’d expect, they have their own niche and part of the market they are targeting with their all-flash drive product. So how do they compare to the competition and what’s their [...]
A clear focus of the recent Tech Field Day #8 event was the use of flash storage (or SSDs) for storage arrays or within hybrid solutions. Pure Storage offers an all flash storage array, which they say can be delivered at the same cost or less than traditional solutions. It’s a [...]
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