The virtualization space seems a little light on technical content lately. There are plenty of event announcements and white paper or webinar promotions, but few posts on, you know, how stuff works. Here's the incomparable Gabrie Van Zanten to change that, with a deep look at iSCSI configuration … [Read more...]
Every Company Is Gunning For Someone Else
December 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Everyone has a target on their backs, but they all aim in different directions One of the amusing aspects of being self-employed is watching all the giants battle it out. Every company is gunning for someone, but the amazing thing is that they rarely point their sights directly at each other: … [Read more...]
The Enterprise IT Acquisition Game
September 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The players are lining up for the biggest acquisition game enterprise IT has witnessed in a while Today is the (a?) day of reckoning in the 3Par saga, with Dell widely expected to make a counter-offer higher than HP’s bid. But this mega deal, like the Data Domain war before it, sends a strong … [Read more...]
Meet the Enterprise IT Superpowers
August 25, 2010 by 1 Comment
Who will power the enterprise? The smart money is betting on a few superpowers taking over. After years spent focusing on personal technology, businesses are increasingly turning back to the enterprise. There are many reasons for this, but the biggest one is the poor economy. Individuals simply … [Read more...]
Dell + EqualLogic, Exanet, Ocarina, 3Par = What?
August 17, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The storage industry got a lot more competitive this morning, as Dell announced plans to buy 3Par. This is the latest round in a well-established race for the enterprise storage dollar, challenging superpower (and Dell partner) EMC in the high-end SAN space. What does this acquisition say about the … [Read more...]
The Dell Opportunity
January 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
So like I said last week, we got this problem looking for growth, and Cisco, HP and everything is keeping me up at night. So what have we got? I tell you what we got, we got an opportunity, and that opportunity is in Round Rock. Yeah, I know, sounds wacky, but think about it. Michael's already … [Read more...]
Enterprise Computing: Is There Any Point Buying From EMC?
December 9, 2009 by 4 Comments
Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for … [Read more...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Storage Automation
February 9, 2009 by Leave a Comment
The first storage performance horseman is spindles: If you don’t have enough disk units, performance will suffer. I have been laying out storage on enterprise arrays since the dark ages, and one of the first lessons I learned was allocating data to avoid hotspots. I remember spending hours back … [Read more...]