Image via Wikipedia I Swear To Tell The Truth Prevarication. Untruths. Misdirection. Deceit. Call it what you will, lying is ugly. While we expect lying from people (there’s an American TV show built around this premise), we expect our network gear to tell only the truth. The command line is … [Read more...]
Drobo Performance Stats
December 2, 2009 by 1 Comment
Some discussions on twitter last week triggered the topic of performance relating to the Drobo’s. This is the 5th consecutive post on Drobo Series of products. To read other Drobo related posts: Drobo S and DroboElite – Introduced 11/23/2009 Some very interesting articles on Drobo S … [Read more...]
Enhancements to EMC Symmetrix V-Max Systems coming!!
October 15, 2009 by 3 Comments
Enhancements to EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems is possibly around the corner (FY09 Q4). FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) is due this quarter and will be one of the most awaited software release in the enterprise storage space by EMC. Bundled together with FAST, possibly a new microcode … [Read more...]
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and Symmetrix V-Max: Basic Differences
July 7, 2009 by 1 Comment
In this post we will cover some important aspects / properties / characteristics / differences between the EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and EMC Symmetrix V-Max. It seems like a lot of users are searching on blog posts about this information. From a high level, I have tried to cover the differences in … [Read more...]
Vaulting on EMC Symmetrix V-Max Systems
May 6, 2009 by 1 Comment
In this blog post we will cover the Vaulting technology related to the EMC Symmetrix V-Max and the DMX-4 technology. Vaulting is a key feature added on DMX-3 series of machines, which was further extended into the DMX-4’s and now the Symmetrix V-Max Systems. With power outages or major power … [Read more...]
Cloud Storage: Review – Zumodrive
February 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Over the last few weeks I’ve been using Zumodrive, another cloud storage offering. This week Zumodrive released their iPhone client, which enables storage to be synchronised to an iPhone or iPod Touch device. Background Zumodrive is a cloud storage service. Data is stored on Amazon S3 and … [Read more...]