The day has finally arrived and I’m sitting in the BA Lounge in Terminal 5. As with any long distance trip I have that usual mixture of trepidation and excitement, especially when travelling to a place I haven’t visited before.
T5 is Heathrow’s new flagship terminal and the dedicated home for British [...]
The GestaltIT Tech Field Day is only few days away now and you can expect by this time next week we’ll have some interesting posts on the seven presenting sponsors. By way of a warm-up, we’re providing a competition, full details of which can be found here. So, follow the links to one [...]
Barely a day has gone by since EMC, VMware and Cisco announced their partnership, and now we have a view on HP’s strategy. Today, HP announce their private cloud offering – Converged Infrastructure Architecture (CIA), putting them squarely head-to-head with the VCE coalition. So what’s it all about?
HP already offer server, storage [...]
The time has come to get a “proper” design for my blog site, now that I’m firmly established with WordPress. Currently I’m using the standard WordPress “Cloud” offering on WordPress.com and will look to enable and pay for custom CSS access.
So, I need some help on creating a new look and feel, which will [...]
This is the second of a series of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product. Previous post(s) can be found at:
Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part I
In the first post of this review, I explained [...]
This is the first of a number of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product.
Not everyone wants or can afford to buy dedicated storage arrays, especially in current climates. So if you don’t want to spend money on a bespoke storage solution, are there any other [...]
No doubt if you follow things on GestaltIT, you will know that the first Tech Field Day has been confirmed. Vendors baked in to present their products are (in no particular order): 3Par, Data Robotics Inc, MDS, Nirvanix, Ocarina Networks and [...]
I don’t talk about it much, however I work with a company called Storage Fusion, who sell SRA (Storage Resource Analysis), a tool for monitoring heterogenous storage environments.
The good news is that Storage Fusion have been nominated for a BCS award. I’m really pleased the product has a chance of [...]
There’s been a lot of talk lately about automated storage tiering (not least from myself) and there’s one piece of the puzzle I’m not completely sure has been explored in depth. Many of the posts refer to physically moving data between tiers of internal (or external) storage. In legacy environments where LUNs are comprised of [...]
So Storage Expo is over for another year. As usual it was the mix of meeting old friends, finding out who had moved to work with who and working out how early to head out to the pub!
For me, there were a number of interesting take aways:
SVC 5.0 – lots of [...]
Popular Posts
- Netapp: The Inflexibility of Flexvols (5,805)
- Back to Blogging (3,839)
- The technical solution is not always the best (3,366)
- Enterprise Computing: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation (3,032)
- Data ONTAP 8.0 – Part III (2,987)
- Comparing iSCSI Targets – Microsoft, StarWind, iSCSI Cake and Kernsafe – Part I (2,521)
- Solid State Arrays: Pure Storage Inc (2,435)
- EMC Releases All Flash VNX (2,312)
- Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part II (2,201)
- Who Will Be The First Solid State Array Vendor To Be Acquired? (2,032)
