The IT debacle at RBS has highlighted the dependency large financial organisations (and other companies) have on their IT infrastructure. From what has leaked out into the press, the RBS issue relates to a piece of software called CA-7, used for mainframe batch job scheduling. When I first started in [...]
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With yet another HDS/VAAI post coming out from Scott Lowe (here), the irrelevant debate continues as to who is in and who is out of VMware’s inner circle of trusted storage vendors. Previously my friend Stephen Foskett discussed HDS’s position regarding VMware integration in this [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”. Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different.
Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following picture. This pretty [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I just read this on The Register. 5TB drives! Can you imagine it! The HDD manufacturers continue to push the envelope even further.
Now I have a concern about drives getting to this size and that’s the ability to get data on/off the drive itself. With 73/146/300GB drives, the capacity [...]
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