It’s been a busy couple of weeks for me, with two lots of travelling in different directions. Last week I was in Barcelona at the HP Converged Infrastructure (CI)Event and the week previously at HDS’s launch of the new VSP (Virtual Storage Platform). Both HP and HDS released their new platform at the same time [...]
Continue Reading This Post →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 [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is a series of post discussing storage array architectures. Previous posts:
Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
In the first post, I discussed the shared storage model architectures typified by what we sometimes think of as Enterprise arrays, but I’ve called monolithic. This term harks back [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I read with interest yesterday’s announcement from IBM that they are to acquire Storwize, a vendor of NAS compression technology. Maybe I don’t understand enough about the technology, however I don’t see much benefit in installing an application in front of my NAS environment to only achieve between 50-90% reduction in [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest. So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays. Why are these interesting? Because I think they are [...]
Continue Reading This Post →There’s no doubt that 2010 will prove to be another tough year in the storage industry. Customers are looking to continue on cost reduction and austerity programmes, squeezing assets as much as they can. Of all the storage vendors out there, which have got the the right vintage to succeed? Here’s my light-hearted look (in no [...]
Continue Reading This Post →My previous post regarding HDS and 3Par’s savings guarantees generated a few replies and rather than respond in comment, I’ve written an additional post in case I rant on too much.
First thought: vendor guarantees need to be genuine; no hiding behind obtuse configurations that help to fluff the figures, [...]
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