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Unified Storage – A Genuine Product Category?

By On April 25, 2012 · 4 Comments · In Opinion, Storage

This week Hitachi launched their entry into the Unified storage array marketplace (press release).  Hitachi Unified Storage (or HUS) as it will be known, takes AMS2xxx arrays and BlueArc NAS gateway/heads, combining them together to produce a unified platform.  We’ll come back to Hitachi in a later post, but in the meantime, I [...]

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Data ONTAP 8.0 – Part III

By On August 9, 2010 · 20 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT, Storage, Ulitzer

I’ve twice posted now on Data ONTAP 8.0 shortcomings and this evening I did a little more research with the IBM version of Netapp’s hardware, the N-Series products.  Fortunately, IBM are slightly more generous and informative in their documentation than Netapp and this document (freely available online) provides more background information on the [...]

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Netapp: The Inflexibility of Data ONTAP

By On August 4, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Featured, Storage

Thanks to @ianhf for posting a related blog entry berating Netapp for their lackadaisical approach in delivering features in Data ONTAP that customers really want.  My original post is here; @ianhf’s post is here.  I urge you to read it as it takes what I was saying a whole [...]

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Netapp: The Inflexibility of Flexvols

By On August 2, 2010 · 41 Comments · In Featured, Storage

I’ve just been reading up on Data ONTAP 8.0 as part of some ongoing work I’m doing.  You may be aware that version 8.0 of the filer operating system brings two major features; 64-bit support and the (sort of) integration of the Spinnaker code to create the multi-node version of ONTAP (called cluster mode).

The [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Netapp The $4Billion Product

By On February 22, 2010 · 25 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT

I had a conversation last week with a PR company doing research for Netapp.  This followed just after Netapp released their Q4 results, with revenue exceeding expectations at just over $1 billion.  It’s amazing how in the space of less than 20 years they have developed from nothing to a company selling a single $4 [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Netapp and Efficiency – Managing Perception

By On March 11, 2009 · 1 Comment · In GestaltIT

Within the Storage Industry there are perceptions on the efficiency of storage hardware from the major vendors. But is that perception justified or is it the customer who is to blame?

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