It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, with two lots of travelling in different directions. Last week I was in Barcelona at the HP Converged Infrastructure (CI)Event and the week previously at HDS’s launch of the new VSP (Virtual Storage Platform). Both HP and HDS released their new platform at the same time [...]
According to this Barrons report, EMC are delayed in the release of their next generation of CLARiiON and Celerra hardware until around April next year. I’m not aware of details of any new products, but I suspect that EMC is looking to harmonise these two product lines into a single piece [...]
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.
The VSP is the first enterprise array from Hitachi that offers support for 2.5″ drives. We’ve seen these Small Form Factor (SFF) models for some time [...]
Today HDS and HP will announce the next generation enterprise storage array architecture from Hitachi (see details here and here). Both companies OEM the VSP (HDS name) or 9500 (HP name) and so the releases are co-ordinated to occur at the same time. I am currently in Santa Clara for [...]
This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center SAN Array. Previous Posts:
Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part I
In this post we’ll discuss the logical configuration, connectivity and protocols available on the Compellent Storage Center array, including the way disks are grouped and LUNs are created from the underlying [...]
This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center Storage Array.
Compellent Inc, founded in 2002, produces the Storage Center product, a SAN storage array build around commodity hardware. In addition to providing advanced features found on newer storage arrays (such as thin provisioning), the Compellent device has one unique (for now) feature [...]
The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech. It signals an acceptance that storage is a key feature in the future direction of the IT industry – more important than [...]
This is a series of post discussing storage array architectures. Previous posts:
Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
In the first post, I discussed the shared storage model architectures typified by what we sometimes think of as Enterprise arrays, but I’ve called monolithic. This term harks back to the mainframe [...]
The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture. Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the monolithic, sometimes [...]
So there we have it. A week after Dell announce their intention to acquire 3Par, HP put their cards on the table and trump the Dell bid with an updated offer of $24 a share. This represents a 1/3 increase over the Dell $18/share offer.
HP have been pretty [...]
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