A little discussion on Twitter between myself, @BasRaayman, @UltraSub and @esignoretti got me thinking about the evolution of VPLEX and the whole caching thing. It’s something I mentioned on one of my previous VPLEX posts and it could have significant impact on designing and implementing VPLEX solutions. Here’s the [...]
So Storage Expo is over for another year. As usual it was the mix of meeting old friends, finding out who had moved to work with who and working out how early to head out to the pub!
For me, there were a number of interesting take aways:
SVC 5.0 – lots of [...]
Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software. With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation?
I talked about Incipient last [...]
This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies. Previous posts:
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I
A recent post from Martin “The Bod” Glassborow got me thinking about the whole process of LUN consolidation. I’ve done lots of migrations where people quake at the thought of changing the LUN size from one array to another. Now, I almost always want to change LUN sizes, as the vendor specific [...]
It’s not very often I side with one vendor or another however after BarryB’s recent post regarding “Benchmarketing” I feel obliged to comment. Have a read of Barry Whyte’s rebuttal too.
We see technology advancements because “concept” devices are used to drive innovation but don’t necessarily translate directly to end-user [...]
Thanks to Chuck who pointed out to me SVC’s ability to move virtual WWNs between nodes during replacement. At some stage in the future I may get to play with SVC but I haven’t so far, so this feature eluded me. Question: is SVC the *only* block virtualisation appliance to offer this functionality and is [...]
Today IBM made a slew of new product announcements. None of it was a surprise due to lots of pre-announcement leaks and the fact the IBM session in Montpelier was to a certain degree the formal announcement of products already mentioned in standard press releases.
I can only describe the new product releases as slow [...]
You will remember that I recently posted a comment about migration costs, specifically with relation to Incipient. My view was (and still is) that the majority of migration costs come from preparatory and remedial work rather than execution of the migration. Well, Incipient asked for the right of reply and [...]
LeftHand, FalconStor, Arkeia and Datacore all now offer VMware appliance versions of their products. I’m in the process of downloading them now and I’m hoping to install over the next few days and do some testing. I’ve previously mentioned some VM NAS products which I’ve installed but [...]
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