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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II

By Chris M Evans On August 27, 2010 · 13 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

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 to the mainframe [...]

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Enterprise Computing: So EMC, Where’s Your Thin Persistence?

By Chris M Evans On October 13, 2009 · 7 Comments · In Uncategorized

Following on from yesterday’s announcement by 3Par, I’m wondering just where EMC is in the thin reclamation market. HDS have ZPR, which although working as a background collection process, does reclaim zeroed out blocks of data. I believe SVC has similar functionality too.

We all know that over time, Thin volumes transition back [...]

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Enterprise Computing: 3Par Thin Enhancements

By Chris M Evans On October 12, 2009 · 9 Comments · In Uncategorized

3Par today took the opportunity at SNW USA to announce some enhancements to their thin provisioning technology. The new features are:

Thin Conversion. Slims down “stout” storage volumes as they are moved to a thin environment. Thin Copy Reclamation. Reclaims unused space from snapshot or replicated volumes. Thin Reclamation for Veritas [...]

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