How could a company as mighty and diverse as HP have had so many issues with executive management? HP stumbled mightily in 2011, and it had nothing to do with product or people. Even sales remained strong, though the PC business is changing. HP’s mighty stumble was a crisis of confidence due … [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 Stack Wars Have Begun!
April 19, 2010 by 9 Comments
Just as public cloud computing is beginning to catch on, the enterprise data center world has been shaken up by the biggest IT product vendors. Rather than sit back and watch their wares commoditized, companies like Cisco, EMC, HP, and now HDS are stepping up to the plate with integrated "stacks" … [Read more...]
HP StorageWorks Tech Day: Day 1
March 31, 2010 by Leave a Comment
What an interesting and extremely busy day the first day of the HP StorageWorks Tech Day 2010 proved to be. The day was a mixture of vision and product demos, providing both the high level and detailed view of current technology and future plans. The itinerary for the day has already been … [Read more...]
New HP P2000 and P4000 Storage Arrays
February 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years. P2000 G3 MSA (Modular Smart … [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...]
HP Acquires Scale-Out NAS Maker, IBRIX
July 17, 2009 by 1 Comment
HP woke up the IT world this morning by announcing their acquisition of IBRIX, a maker of scale-out file servers. The purchase will presumably be integrated with HP's existing clustered file system technology acquired with PolyServe in 2007. The move demonstrates HP's commitment to continue to be a … [Read more...]
HP’s RAID 6 (ADG – Advanced Data Guarding)
February 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Continuing my RAID 6 posts, first HDS’s RAID 6, then NetApp’s RAID-DP and now this time around it’s HP’s RAID-6 ADG. Will try to keep this post short in terms of overall RAID 6 concepts, rather jump directly into the technical aspects of HP’s RAID-6 ADG (Advanced Data … [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...]