I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max. Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following:
Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space Reclamation reduces capacity requirements and total cost of [...]
I feel drawn to post on the details of Atmos and give my opinion whether it is good, bad, innovative or not. However there’s one small problem. Normally I comment on things that I’ve touched – installed/used/configured/broken etc, but Atmos doesn’t fit this model so my comments are based on the marketing information EMC have [...]
“Innovative – featuring new methods or original ideas – creative in thinking” – Oxford English Dictionary of English, 11th edition.
There have been some interesting comments over the weekend, specifically from EMC in regard to this post which I wrote on Benchmarketing started by Barry Burke and followed by Barry Whyte.
“Mark” [...]
I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously, I have [...]
There’s been a few references to Invista over the last couple of weeks, notably from Barry discussing the “stealth announcement”.
I commented on Barry’s blog that I felt Invista had been a failure, due to the number of sales. I’m not quite sure why this is so, as I think that virtualisation in [...]
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