EMC will today unveil a new product, and will no doubt attract a great deal of press. The modest technical capabilities of VFCache 1.0 limit its use case, but the announcement is big news, since it marks EMCs first foray into the hot server-attached storage market. EMC VFCache is a Simple Read … [Read more...]
EMC VFCache (aka “Project Lightning”) Is One Small Step, But an Important One
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Intel: 10Gb Adoption In Datacenter Networks
November 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Tech Field Day Presenting Company: Intel (http://www.intel.com) Going into Tech Field Day, I was really curious as to what Intel could possibly be presenting on. Their portfolio of products is ridiculously huge… and there are spins that you could put on each one to make it relevant for a … [Read more...]
Announcing Tech Field Day 4: This Week in San Jose!
November 8, 2010 by 3 Comments
Gestalt IT is pleased to announce our next Tech Field Day event. The Field Day delegates will convene this week in San Jose, CA, engaging some of the most innovative and interesting IT infrastructure companies. The unique Field Day℠ concept brings together as equals two groups that rarely … [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...]
Live From HP Tech Forum: HP DL980, Blades, and EVA Cluster
June 25, 2010 by Leave a Comment
We were pleased to be invited to attend HP's annual Tech Forum event, held in Las Vegas on June 21-24, 2010. Among the many announcements made by HP, the massive DL980 and new blade servers stood out, along with the StorOnce data deduplication technology. Since not everyone could attend this event, … [Read more...]
Cisco UCS Servers – A Little Bit of Cynical Marketing Magic Can Go a Long Way
May 18, 2010 by Leave a Comment
When I look at the Unified Computing Systems from Cisco, I get overwhelmed by the targeted marketing. It's kind of creepy how the package is put together to be just enough different to have a strong marketing message. And handle any objections you might have to buying it. What is a surprise, is … [Read more...]
How Did Microsoft and Intel Get 1 Million iSCSI IOPS?
March 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Ever since Microsoft and Intel declared that the combination of Windows and Nehalem could deliver over a million iSCSI IOPS, I’ve been curious about just how they did it. What black magic could push that many I/Os over a single Ethernet connection? And what was on the other end? Now Intel has … [Read more...]
Microsoft and Intel Pushing iSCSI Performance Limits
January 7, 2010 by 2 Comments
How fast can iSCSI get? “Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel” might sound like another “blah blah” marketing piece, but a little birdy tells me that this webcast will drop a bombshell about iSCSI performance. Lots of storage and networking folks … [Read more...]
Monofunctional or Multifunctional – Cheap always WINS
April 20, 2009 by 1 Comment
The marketing surge in Ethernet Storage Networking The recent surge by storage networking vendors (Cisco and Brocade et al) to develop and roll out Ethernet based storage networks means that Storage and Networking teams are going to need to work together. The most common reaction from Storage … [Read more...]
Storage Changes in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4
March 31, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Like clockwork, 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. For more information on earlier updates, … [Read more...]