A number of switch vendors have announced the 10Gb Ethernet is the THING for 2010. Really?
Cisco Launching Full Assault On Data Center Server Market
June 4, 2009 By 2 Comments
In case you were wondering, Cisco isn’t playing games with the Unified Computing System. Their aim is to take on IBM, HP, and Dell and become a major player in the data center server market.
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: When Does It Get FAST and Virtual?
May 8, 2009 By 3 Comments
EMC caused a major stir on April 14 as they announced the next-generation Symmetrix enterprise storage array, the V-Max. Since that time, many of the features have been discussed and dissected on various blogs at the same time as EMC moves forward with sales of the new system. But one question remains: When can end-users actually purchase and use the V-Max system as described? And in particular, When does the V-Max get the most desirable and hyped Fully-Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) and scale-out features?
Wire-Speed 10 Gb iSCSI, Anyone?
March 6, 2009 By 5 Comments
Along with many tidbits about storage advances in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, this WinHEC presentation by Microsoft’s Suzanne Morgan demonstrated that the combination of the Windows iSCSI Initiator and NetApp FAS 3070 filer could saturate a 10 Gb Ethernet link. How many other storage arrays can do that?