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 [...]
So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it! All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”. It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved today using EMC’s Symmetrix Optimizer?
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Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software. With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation?
I talked about Incipient last [...]
“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.
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It’s not very often I side with one vendor or another however after BarryB’s recent post regarding “Benchmarketing” I feel obliged to comment. Have a read of Barry Whyte’s rebuttal too.
We see technology advancements because “concept” devices are used to drive innovation but don’t necessarily translate directly to end-user [...]
Moshe Yanai of EMC, XIV and now IBM fame (I’m sure I don’t need to fill in the details) is now blogging. You can catch up with him here.
As previously requested, I’m going to start posting my RSS blog feeds, starting with IBM.
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 [...]
Following on from BarryW’s comment to my XiV post, I’ve been thinking over how the XiVarchitecture works. When a disk fails and the missing mirrors need to be recreated, then the data is likely to exist across all or most of the configured drives. Logically it would make sense that the target for the new [...]
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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