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 [...]
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 [...]
Here’s another video from this week’s SNWE in Frankfurt. This time I’m talking to Barry Whyte about the IBM Storewize v7000; a modular array with SVC tendencies. It’s good to see another vendor acknowledging that the ability to manage external storage is justified and can offer very real benefits in cost [...]
On day 2 of SNWE, I popped down to the Fusion-IO stand. At the IP Expo event earlier this month, I was initially told I couldn’t video my chat with on of the presenters on the stand. Fortunately that appears to have been no more than a mixup, and Mat Young (marketing guy [...]
Today and tomorrow (Tuesday & Wednesday), I’m visiting Storage Networking World Europe (SNWE) in Frankfurt as an “editorial guest” of SNIA.
Disclaimer: The organisers have paid for my flights and accommodation to attend this event, however I’m under no obligation to write anything; all views are my own.
It’s the first time I’ve [...]
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With relatively simple storage arrays, the process of charging for utilisation is a straightforward one. For instance, in an array that has all [...]
This is a series of posts that cover the features of Hitachi’s new enterprise storage platform, the VSP (Virtual Storage Platform), also sold by HP as the P9500 array. Previous posts:
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: Disk Drive Architecture
Hitachi have modified the VSP array to provide significant performance improvements over the previous USP [...]
I’ve just returned from spending two days in Barcelona, attending the HP Converged Infrastructure Event.
Disclaimer: HP paid for my flights, hotels and meals during this trip. I was otherwise not remunerated for my time or required to blog about the event.
The event was more a media/press session rather than a technical deep dive, [...]
Last month we saw the announcement of vSphere 4.1 and the support of new storage features centred around VAAI, the vSphere API for Array Integration. This introduced a number of array offload features including Full Copy, Block Zeroing and Hardware Assisted Locking. Now this new functionality, aimed at improving scalability is intended to [...]
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