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VAAI Posturing

By On September 21, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Storage

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 post, which followed on from an [...]

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Enterprise Computing: Hitachi Enters The Cloud

By On October 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Cloud, GestaltIT

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 much sums up [...]

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The cuts are happening again

By On July 29, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

The Register has reported that some UK banks are forcing their contractors to take a 10% pay cut or take a hike. It is usual for contractors to take the hit first as they are an easy target compared to terminating permanent staff and to be fair, as a contractor/consultant myself, if the [...]

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5TB drives

By On July 4, 2008 · 6 Comments · In Uncategorized

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 to response time [...]

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