It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT.
The Old
Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet. Tape and backup may not be seen as cool [...]
One of the worst kept secrets in the storage world is finally out. EMC are acquiring XtremIO for a reported $430 million, as documented in a previous post.
The EMC press release talks about XtremIO as “one of the world’s widely regarded Flash storage architecture pioneers”, yet they have [...]
If the weekend IT press is to be believed, EMC are on the verge of acquiring solid-state array vendor XtremIO in a deal worth around $450 million. This would be a remarkable outcome for a company that is still technically “in stealth mode” and has no obvious revenue or customers.
Why would EMC [...]
Yesterday EMC finally revealed the details on their not-so-secret Lightning and Thunder flash projects. Fortunately this launch event didn’t include cramming small people into minis or firing Chad Sakac out of a cannon, but was more focused on the market and products EMC are bringing to it. There was also a large amount of Twitter [...]
It’s never a good day at the office when your shares drop by 20% in a single day. However the relentless drive to produce better results quarter-on-quarter is what the US stock markets demand of publicly listed companies such as Fusion-IO. Poor results this week saw their shares punished by a [...]
Storagezilla calls out hard disk availability in his recent post. In fact, I discussed the subject of drive prices last week with James Carter of Touchdown PR on my way to SNW Europe. James highlighted he was seeing prices on standard drives having doubled recently.
I went back and looked [...]
As the vendor who introduced flash drives into traditional arrays some 2+ years ago, we shouldn’t be surprised that EMC has released an all-flash version of its mid-range array, the VNX. The new device, codenamed VNX5500-F can support up to 250 200GB drives for a maximum all-flash capacity of 50TB. EMC don’t say, [...]
Last week VMware issued this advisory on their knowledge base, recommending the disabling of VAAI Thin Provisioning reclaim in ESXi 5.0. Apparently it seems to be causing “poor performance’ during certain vSphere actions like Storage vMotion. The “cause” section contains the somewhat vague comment as follows:
VAAI Thin Provisioning is enabled by default [...]
