Today Data Robotics (Drobo) are announcing a new range of storage devices specifically targeted at business customers. However this is a market that already has many players; what are they offering and how will they fare in this already competitive market?
New Devices
First of all, let’s take a look at [...]
I found the following article from last week’s “The Register” an interesting one:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/27/hp_and_violin_memory/
In it, Chris Mellor talks about HP producing an Oracle Exadata competitor by integrating the use of Violin Memory’s all-SSD storage array. Folks may remember that I predicted exactly this set up in the following post:
At 360IT last month I managed to catch up with Vish Mulchand, Director of Software Product Marketing. Vish talks about Oracle VM Server support and other virtualisation platforms, including VMware, Hyper-V and Xen. In a virtual world, storage and virtualisation integration is going to be key. 3Par have already demonstrated their support for [...]
I’ve just returned from spending two days in Barcelona, attending the HP Converged Infrastructure Event.
Disclaimer: HP paid for my flights, hotels and meals during this trip. I was otherwise not remunerated for my time or required to blog about the event.
The event was more a media/press session rather than a technical deep dive, [...]
According to this Barrons report, EMC are delayed in the release of their next generation of CLARiiON and Celerra hardware until around April next year. I’m not aware of details of any new products, but I suspect that EMC is looking to harmonise these two product lines into a single piece [...]
Today HDS and HP will announce the next generation enterprise storage array architecture from Hitachi (see details here and here). Both companies OEM the VSP (HDS name) or 9500 (HP name) and so the releases are co-ordinated to occur at the same time. I am currently in Santa Clara for [...]
The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech. It signals an acceptance that storage is a key feature in the future direction of the IT industry – more important than [...]
So there we have it. A week after Dell announce their intention to acquire 3Par, HP put their cards on the table and trump the Dell bid with an updated offer of $24 a share. This represents a 1/3 increase over the Dell $18/share offer.
HP have been pretty [...]
In homage to Calvin’s post of today, extolling the virtues of tape, I couldn’t help but create my own tongue-in-cheek version of his post. So here are my reasons tape still exists in the enterprise.
Because we just spent $5million on huge automated tape libraries (that mount each tape on average once [...]
Yesterday Nimbus Data Systems announced the release of their S-Class storage array. What’s different about this storage device is that it uses purely NAND memory rather than traditional spinning disk. With it’s arrival, we’re seeing another nail in the coffin of the traditional hard drive.
OK, so the S-Class isn’t going [...]
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