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Drive Prices Increase – Who Will Suffer Most?

By On November 6, 2011 · 13 Comments · In Storage

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 [...]

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Compellent: New Features Speculation

By On November 24, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

Chris Mellor recently speculated on Compellent and the additional horsepower of their new storage product releases – series 40 controllers with Storage Center 5.4.  Over dinner last night, we discussed how various features could be integrated into the current architecture.  Many of them are surprisingly easy to achieve (or so we [...]

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EMC Delays New CLARiiON and Celerra? – UPDATED

By On October 3, 2010 · 5 Comments · In Storage, Ulitzer

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 [...]

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Will EMC Leave Non-Vblock Customers Out In The Cold?

By On September 13, 2010 · 13 Comments · In Opinion, Virtualisation

Last Friday I was a guest on the latest Infosmack podcast, with special guest Chad Sakac.  One of the topics was Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0 (initially in beta).  You can read more details in the press release, however in a nutshell, UIM is all about [...]

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3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry

By On August 31, 2010 · 6 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT, Storage, Ulitzer

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 [...]

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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I

By On August 24, 2010 · 18 Comments · In Featured, Storage, Ulitzer

The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture.  Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the monolithic, sometimes [...]

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Data ONTAP 8.0 – Part III

By On August 9, 2010 · 20 Comments · In Featured, GestaltIT, Storage, Ulitzer

I’ve twice posted now on Data ONTAP 8.0 shortcomings and this evening I did a little more research with the IBM version of Netapp’s hardware, the N-Series products.  Fortunately, IBM are slightly more generous and informative in their documentation than Netapp and this document (freely available online) provides more background information on the [...]

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Netapp: The Inflexibility of Data ONTAP

By On August 4, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Featured, Storage

Thanks to @ianhf for posting a related blog entry berating Netapp for their lackadaisical approach in delivering features in Data ONTAP that customers really want.  My original post is here; @ianhf’s post is here.  I urge you to read it as it takes what I was saying a whole [...]

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Netapp: The Inflexibility of Flexvols

By On August 2, 2010 · 41 Comments · In Featured, Storage

I’ve just been reading up on Data ONTAP 8.0 as part of some ongoing work I’m doing.  You may be aware that version 8.0 of the filer operating system brings two major features; 64-bit support and the (sort of) integration of the Spinnaker code to create the multi-node version of ONTAP (called cluster mode).

The [...]

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Opinion: Netapp & vSphere 4.1 – Where’s the Beef?

By On July 14, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Featured, Opinion

Yesterday’s announcements on vSphere 4.1 was amazing in a number of respects.  Firstly the blogging community were falling over themselves to make announcements on the new release.  I expect there was a well organised PR & marketing push behind the scenes to get so many people talking about the technology from midnight onwards.  Secondly, there [...]

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