The second part on a collection of topics this week and joined by Jeremy Stretch from Packetlife and Amy Arnold to cover the news in the Networking Industry.
Show 7 – Hiding in Plain Sight – Enterprise MPLS
June 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
HDS’ HAM-Fisted Announcement Can’t Be All
May 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
HDS telegraphed that a big announcement was coming today. They even made it fun, with a (literally) cryptic blog entry to make sure we were all watching. But the announcement of High Availability Manager, a software product to manage existing HDS USP-V and USP-VM arrays, underwhelmed. It isn’t HDS’ answer to the EMC Symmetrix V-Max and it’s forthcoming FAST technology.
Investment Strategies and Virtualisation
April 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FAST and Furious
April 15, 2009 By 4 Comments
EMC Symmetrix V-Max Is Neither Monolithic Nor Midrange
April 14, 2009 By 4 Comments
EMC today announced a new generation of the flagship Symmetrix enterprise storage array by EMC: Initial reactions have compared it to the CLARiiON (with which it shares hardware), the DMX-4 (with which it shares software), the new 3PAR F-Class, the Compellent Storage Center, the HDS USP, and NetApp’s next-generation clustered filers. In every case, the V-Max is different enough to be compellingly new – it’s a true hybrid of monolithic (tiger) and modular (lion), thus its codename, “tigon”!
Governance And Peaks In The Cloud
March 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As large organizations begin to look towards cloud computing, many find themselves questioning the suitability of the infrastructure for their business needs. As consumer-focused services like Carbonite lose data and startup-focused systems like Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure suffer outages, the image of the cloud has darkened. How are providers protecting the data? What RTO and RPO is offered? Are these sufficient for the types of applications being considered for the cloud?
Reacting To The Open Cloud Manifesto
March 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Reuven Cohen of Enomaly has penned an Open Cloud Manifesto. This might not have been news but for a curious backlash when two big cloud vendors, Microsoft and Amazon, refused to sign on, although IBM, Sun, and many others have endorsed it. In my opinion, the Open Cloud Manifesto is interesting, forward-thinking, provocative, and a bit naive.
Data Migration Strategies – Part II
February 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Data Migration Strategies – Part I
February 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Understanding the reasons for migration is a great place to start in developing a strategy. Seasoned IT professionals will know that change for change’s sake is not a good thing; “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – the old adage says, for good reason. Data migrations will introduce change into an environment and with change comes risk. However there are practical reasons to perform migrations.