I’ve been using VMware products for close to 10 years now. Scanning back on my purchase history, the first version of VMware Workstation I bought was 2.0.1 for NT & 2000 back in August 2001. I was an immediate fan of the product and at the time used it on a software development [...]
This is the last in a four-part series of posts on the Sun Storage 7000 USS storage arrays. Previous posts in this series can be found here:
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site. STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day. So have solid state drives lost their sparkle?
Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC [...]
This is the second in a series of articles on Sun Microsystem’s Unified Storage System, also known as Amber Road. Previous post(s):
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I
So in the first post in this series I discussed the USS and gave a basic overview of the hardware. In [...]
It’s clear from recent technology announcements that storage is moving towards being a commodity offering. Modular arrays are gaining in popularity as the underlying technology becomes more reliable. Look at the hard disk drive; SATA devices are now capable of 1.2 million hours MTBF. Vendors like 3Par, [...]
So all the debate about IBM buying Sun Microsystems has counted for nothing. Oracle have stepped in and acquired the company for $9.50 a share in cash. Here’s the press release.
Now I only saw the news a few minutes ago but already my mind is racing. Firstly, Oracle doesn’t strike [...]
It’s certainly been a busy week in the world of enterprise computing.
First, Cisco announced their Unified Computing System – blade servers to you and me. UCS integrates blade servers with management functionality and the Unified Fabric. What’s interesting is that Fibre Channel gets pushed out at this point [...]
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