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FAST: Features, Drawbacks, Applications and some Questions

December 11, 2009 By Devang Panchigar Leave a Comment

FAST (FULLY AUTOMATED STORAGE TIERING). FAST made a debut in the storage market yesterday (12/08/09). Finally after the market buzz we got a preview of the product in terms of its features, functionality, characteristics, possible shortcomings and use cases. This blog post focuses on the features, the drawbacks and some applications around FAST. By no means is this a comprehensive or an exhaustive list of the above.

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: "in-the-box", "out-of-box", 5874, Advanced Tiering Storage management, Atmos, ATSM, average I/O, Celerra NS, Centera, CKD, CLARiiON, configuration, CX4, Data center, Drives, FAST, FAST LUN Migrator, FBA, Fibre, flash, Fully Automated Storage Tiering, IOPS, LUN, Mainframe, multitenancy, Naviseccli, Navisphere Analyzer, Open Systems, policy, Private Clouds, Rainfinity file management / VE, Rainfinity File management appliance, Raw capacity, Release 29, SATA, SLA, storage groups, Symcli, Symmetrix Management Console, Symmetrix V-Max Thick provisioning, vblock, virtual provisioning

Policy! Policy!! Policy!!!

October 21, 2009 By Devang Panchigar Leave a Comment

It has been an exciting month, some new details are emerging related to automated storage tiering, workload distributions, workflow automation, SLA’s, QoS and how Policy based storage management can help solve these challenges.

Filed Under: Featured, Storage Tagged With: @storagenerve, Algorithms, Application, Automated Storage Tiering, Compellent, Data Progression, EMC, FAST, HDS, Hetergenous, Hybrid Clouds, IBM, Middleware, Networking, OS, Pillar Data Systems, policy, Private Clouds, Public Clouds, QoS, Server Virtualization, SLA, Storage Blogosphere, workflow automations, Workload distributions

Driven by Past Policy

August 25, 2009 By Martin Glassborow Leave a Comment

Every now and then, I like to annoy people and point out that much that we are talking about as the future in Open Systems has been done before. And today is one of those days!

Filed Under: Storage Tagged With: Big Ideas, IBM, Mainframe, policy, storage management

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