Following on from yesterday’s announcement by 3Par, I’m wondering just where EMC is in the thin reclamation market. HDS have ZPR, which although working as a background collection process, does reclaim zeroed out blocks of data. I believe SVC has similar functionality too.
We all know that over time, Thin volumes transition back [...]
3Par today took the opportunity at SNW USA to announce some enhancements to their thin provisioning technology. The new features are:
Thin Conversion. Slims down “stout” storage volumes as they are moved to a thin environment. Thin Copy Reclamation. Reclaims unused space from snapshot or replicated volumes. Thin Reclamation for Veritas [...]
Today Symantec are announcing their scalable NAS product called FileStore. This simple appliance claims to offer linear scaling for up to 2PB of storage per cluster, leveraging all the benefits of the Veritas storage products we’ve come to know and love over the years. But what chance has this [...]
After a lot of second guessing by people, Dell have finally made that purchase and announced today they intend to acquire Perot Systems, which will become the services arm for the company.
There’s no doubt that Dell needed to do something to match the technology and services play offered by IBM and [...]
We’re starting to see a flood of 2TB drives coming on to the market from all of the major hard drive manufacturers. This review covers the Western Digital WD20EADS, a 2TB SATA-II drive with green credentials.
The Basics
The WD20EADS is part of the Caviar Green range of drives. These are aimed at desktop computing [...]
On 1st September, Netapp announced a programme to give away $1,000,000 of hardware and services to a non-Netapp customer in order to “prove” their Virtualisation Guarantee – save 50% of your storage in virtualised environments. Now that challenge is available to UK customers – and this time it’s for a cool [...]
I’m on holiday this week, relaxing in the south of Spain with some lovely warm temperatures, which has been a boon compared to the summer we had in the UK this year. Part of my holiday reading has been Isaac Asimov and I’m ploughing through his short stories, currently one called “The Feeling of Power”.
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Thanks to everyone who voted for me on the Storage Monkeys poll. I managed 2nd place which is a fantastic improvement from my 10th of last year.
It appears that there’s a new poll to vote on – over at StorageRap, Marc Farley is looking for votes in StorageBlog Idle. So, [...]
Newsnight in the UK had an article on Twitter this evening. They interviewed Evan Williams, CEO of Twitter. There was the usual inane comments you’d expect for an interview where the comment has to be generalised towards the audience however one part of the interview struck me as [...]
The Storage Monkeys are doing their non-vendor poll over the next couple of weeks and voting is underway. I’m unashamedly after votes to improve my 10th position from last year’s poll. Vote for me at Storage Monkeys Vote or follow the helpful link box on the right of the page. Thanks in advance!
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