Cloud Computing: Block-Based Storage

October 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A while back, I discussed speculation from EMC around Emulex’s proposed cloud-block storage appliance, E3s (Enterprise Elastic Storage). With my current focus on Cloud Storage, I thought it would be good to delve a bit deeper into some of the aspects of why block-based cloud computing could prove tricky and why without an appliance it may be impossible.

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Cloud Computing: Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage (E3S)

June 19, 2009 By Leave a Comment

A new product from Emulex called E3S or Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage appears to allow block-level data to be migrated into the cloud for later access. But is it a backup solution; is it a replication solution? Let’s think about this in more detail.

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Monofunctional or Multifunctional – Cheap always WINS

April 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

Voice network were monofunction. Data networks are multifunction. Storage Networks are monofunctional, want to bet Data Networks will handle Storage ?

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Storage Changes in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4

March 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

VMware has cranked out another update to their flagship enterprise product, ESX 3.5. The last update came out in early November, 2008, and included some major new functionality. What’s in store this time to intrigue storage folks? Not much.

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