Within the Storage Industry there are perceptions on the efficiency of storage hardware from the major vendors. But is that perception justified or is it the customer who is to blame?
Here’s a quality piece of reporting from TechCrunch on the state of Facebook and their data problems. I mentioned just last week in this post about their data growth. It’s incredible that they’re purchasing a new Netapp 3070 filer each week!
I’m surprised that Facebook would be continually purchasing NAS [...]
As well as storage, one area of IT I find really interesting is virtualisation. Over the years I’ve used VM (e.g. the IBM mainframe platform), MVS (now morphed into z/OS) as well as products such as Iceberg. More recently I’ve been using VMware since it was first released and finally have managed to deploy a [...]
Good old Chuck Hollis has stirred up the vendor vitriol over the last week with two posts comparing the capacity efficiency of EMC’s CX4, Netapp’s FAS and HP’s EVA products. See “Your Usable Capacity May Vary” and “Updates to Capacity Post”.
Unsurprisingly, Chuck’s conclusion is that EMC comes out [...]
Over at Tech Trader Daily, Eric Savitz has picked up on a 6% rise of Netapp shares today. There are no theories as to why, but I have my own. Could IBM be planning to buy Netapp?
If you think about it, the purchase would make sense. IBM is a huge reseller of [...]
In a previous post earlier this year I mentioned the Onaro purchase by Network Appliance. As I said at the time, I wasn’t aware Onaro’s SANScreen product even had a NAS module. It seems I was wrong, and thanks for Deni O’Connor for indirectly pointing it [...]
I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front over the last week, mainly because I’ve been away on business and I didn’t take my laptop ( ). I travelled “lite”, which I’m not normally used to doing and that meant taking only the essentials. In fact, as I didn’t have any checked baggage, I [...]
I just read a comment over at Zerowait regarding Netapp and proprietary hardware. It reminded me of something I was thinking about recently on the commoditisation of storage.
There’s nothing worse to my mind than a storage vendor who has no competition. Inevitably in some organisations that situation can exist when a [...]
I mentioned as a “Storage Resolution” to look more in-depth at iSCSI. Well I’ve started doing just that today.
The first thing I thought I needed was a working environment. I’m not keen on investing in an entire storage array (at this stage) to do the testing (unless some *very* generous vendor [...]
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