During last week’s HP Discover 2011 event, Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton) raised a very interesting point regarding the way VMware potentially intend to control the storage space through VMFS and the apparent contradiction in terms of also pushing off tasks to the storage array through VAAI. I thought it worth expanding on [...]
Today VMware announced the release of vSphere 4.1, the next generation of their ever evolving hypervisor. To be honest it would be hard to miss this announcement judging by the flurry of “first to blog” posts I’ve seen on RSS feeds and Twitter today (see the list at the end of this post). I’d [...]
You may have assumed from my previous post on VPLEX that I am negative towards the concept of storage federation. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, ever since I was involved in deploying ESX onto enterprise storage infrastructure (some 4 years ago), I’ve been waiting for the day true federation [...]
My new DroboPro arrived this week and so far I’m less than impressed. As you know, I already have had a generation 1 Drobo for some time. It has been a great device, doing exactly what I wanted. After winning a second standard Drobo at Tech Field Day, I paid for the upgrade to the [...]
HP announced today their intention to acquire LeftHand networks, an iSCSI and virtualised SAN player.
Now, I doubt HP needed to buy LeftHand for their iSCSI technology. I suspect the bigger play here is the virtualised SAN technology they have – also known as the Virtual SAN Appliance. This allows a SAN to be created [...]
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