The great battle of enterprise storage is on! The time has come to take sides on the core question of storage for virtual servers: Do you want storage intelligence to live in the hypervisor or the array? Most administrators are already lining up on one side or the other, unintentionally casting … [Read more...]
Getting acquainted with storage
February 23, 2011 by Leave a Comment
So in the past few weeks I have been playing with the new EMC Celerra that my company purchased. As of right now I can say that creating CIFS servers and sharing storage is pretty straight forward. Other areas, not so much. Because the unit is new and I decided to get it setup all by myself, … [Read more...]
Thoughts On A Dell Acquisition Of Compellent
December 9, 2010 by 10 Comments
The news came out this morning that Dell is in exclusive talks to acquire network storage specialist Compellent for just under $900 million. I will leave it to the real reporters to track the ups and downs of the story; what piques my interest is the value Dell gets from Compellent's technology and … [Read more...]
Avere: Live From Tech Field Day San Jose
November 12, 2010 by Leave a Comment
The Tech Field Day staff have been working behind the scenes to improve the quality and timeliness of video output from our event. We are pleased to present the first result of this work, in the form of live streaming from Tech Field Day 4 in San Jose this week. NAS acceleration specialist Avere, … [Read more...]
Huawei Symantec Enters The United States Storage and Security Market
October 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Huawei Symantec recently introduced their SAN, NAS, and security offerings for the United States market Surprise! Huawei Symantec has arrived in the United States, ready to take on the midrange storage and network security market with a line of devices that have proven their worth in the … [Read more...]
NetApp StorageGrid – More Questions than Answers?
June 2, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Okay, so NetApp have announced the NetApp StorageGrid product, however at the moment as far as I can see it is a simple rebrand of the ByCast product. I am not sure whether I was expecting anything more or whether I was expecting them to go dark with the Bycast product set for the time being whilst … [Read more...]
Why Do I Ignore NAS?
May 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Why does network-attached storage (NAS) have such a poor reputation? This isn’t what the vendors want to be talking about, but some recent product announcements and discussions led to this thought. IT folks as a whole don’t trust NAS for real work, and 20 years of effort from big names like Sun, … [Read more...]
Podcast 5: HP Roundtable at Tech Field Day
May 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This week's Tech Field Day roundtable discussion focuses on the presentation given by HP at our Boston event. This presentation included a strategic overview from Tom Joyce, HP's new VP of StorageWorks Marketing, Milan Shetti Sr., Director of NAS Engineering, as well as an introduction to the X9000 … [Read more...]
Podcast 4: Virtual Field Day Nimbus Roundtable
April 26, 2010 by 1 Comment
This week's virtual Tech Field Day roundtable discussion focuses on Nimbus Data Systems. Tom Isakovich, CEO of Nimbus, gave the Tech Field Day Delegates a sneak peek at their new S-class solid state iSCSI storage array. Nimbus claims that the S-class will deliver new levels of performance in a … [Read more...]