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Announcing Gestalt IT Tech Field Day Boston 2010
Gestalt IT is pleased to announce the first date of 2010 in our ongoing series of Tech Field Day events. Our next event will convene in Boston, MA on April 8 and 9, engaging some of the most innovative and interesting IT infrastructure companies in Massachusetts.
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Very little is known about the Symmetrix File System largely known as SFS. Symmetrix File System is an EMC IP and practically only used within the Symmetrix environment for housekeeping, security, access control, stats collection, performance data, algorithm selection, etc.
Industry Confidential
Ellison Ain’t No Sun KingThat arrogant Larry Ellison has just become the Sun king. We knew it was going to happen and now Oracle is our newest competitor. We need to respond appropriately to this.
A Personal Word From Plain Old JoeI wanted to address this whole “Don Joey” thing. See, I’m not at all like this in person. I’m more like a friendly grandfather. I guess my Italian heritage makes people take me wrong.
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It’s been a long, strange trip for Overland Storage. Best known in recent years for the tape backup libraries it sold through Hewlett-Packard, Overland is in the midst of an iSCSI-focused renovation at the hands of former Snap Appliance and Data Robotics execs. Could this reboot breathe new life into Overland as well as the SMB storage market it is focused on?
Why, oh why, oh why, has every man and his dog started calling everything Cloud? Cloud Hosting, Cloud Apps, Cloud Services? Is it me, or was it only 6 months ago that these were called Virtual Hosting, Web Apps, Web Services? What’s changed?
I had a conversation last week with a PR company doing research for Netapp. This followed just after Netapp released their Q4 results, with revenue exceeding expectations at just over $1 billion. It’s amazing how in the space of less than 20 years they have developed from nothing to a company selling a single $4 billon product.
Silicon Angle claims that Cisco is dumping HP as a partner and it makes sense. After all, HP and Cisco have been trading blows for the last two years and progressively escalating the war. Once the Acadia / VCE project was announced, it was clear where Cisco is planning to go.
It has been nearly a year since Cisco shook up the IT infrastructure world with their unified computing system (UCS) server line. UCS is an important infrastructure element and deserves the continuing attention it has received, but questions about the product and its place in the market continue to be raised.
Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years.
Server Virtualization
HP Blades Tech Day 2Day 2 of HP Blades Day took place in a new location – the Customer Experience Centre. We reviewed the previous day’s presentations with a quick question & answer session, learned about client virtualisation (VDI), and took a factory tour.
HP Blades Tech Day 1HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was. Here is a summary of the day’s activities.
Storage
VMware PVSCSI Adapter performance and low I/O WorkloadsOne of the major new components in Virtual Machine Hardware 7 is the new Para Virtualised SCSI (PVSCSI) adapter. When it first came out there were a number of posts regarding the much improved I/O Performance and latency reduction this new adapter delivered, such as Chad Sakac’s I/O vSphere performance test post.
More Vendor Bashing!NetApp’s Filer is a single great product which you have built a business on but it is just a single product.
Networking
Innocence, Fairness, and Technology BenchmarksHP recently commissioned Tolley Group to benchmark their BladeSystem c7000 against the Cisco UCS 5100. The short report focuses on two results, and reads like so many competitive benchmarks in the IT industry: Tolley focuses on metrics that highlight the strength of HP’s solution and the weaknesses of Cisco’s. What’s the real value of pinpoint maximum-performance benchmarks like this?
FCoE IS about Rip’N'Replace (Just not your Storage)Anyone who thinks that FCoE is ‘migration’ preserving your existing investments is wrong.. and right. The investment just won’t be in Storage companies.
Desktop
Drobo Performance StatsSee the Drobo in Action, a wide coverage of various Drobo Performance Stats. Here are some stats collected with running Drobo as a direct attached storage and using some benchmarking tools to compile these results. All the performance stats are collected using different criteria’s that can affect the performance of the Drobo. Also used various connection methods including USB and Firewire to obtain these stats.
VMware Will Virtualize Google Chrome, But Will Chrome Run VMware For VDI?Will Chrome OS become relevant in connecting to VDI solutions? Google’s immediate traction and ultimate success with an OS relies on it’s ability to install VDI clients – not as a Microsoft desktop replacement, whether physical or virtual.
Cloud Computing
What is Dynamic?There’s a lot of talk about Dynamic Data Centres, Dynamic Infrastructures; mostly in a cloudy context and mostly as some over-arching architectural vendor-focused vision. At times, I wonder if when a vendor talks about a ‘Dynamic Infrastructure’; if they actually mean, you can use as much of OUR infrastructure as you like? You can flex up and down on OUR infrastructure.
VMware PEX 2010: My Wrap UpFor all those that complained just 4 months ago that VMworld 2009 was disappointing because the announcements were few and far between, all I can say is, based on what I watched, experienced, and touched this week at PEX 2010, VMware should grab your attention again soon!