The Assymetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) mode on CLARiiON

March 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I’ve noticed that I have been getting a lot of search engine hits relating to the various features, specifications and problems on the EMC CLARiiON array. One of the searches was related to a feature that has been around for a bit. It was actually introduced in 2001, but in order to give a full explanation I’m just going to start at the beginning.

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Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way

January 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong.  Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot.  What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.

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Will Alan Atkinson Have The WysDM To Steer Xiotech Right?

October 1, 2009 By 8 Comments

Today marks the next step for Xiotech, with a new round of funding and a new CEO at the helm. Alan Atkinson founded WysDM, sold to EMC, and takes over Xiotech and its ISE hardware.

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WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!

July 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Western Digital announced this morning the world’s first “1 TB mobile hard drive!” But although the news is great for storage-hungry folks looking for a portable external drive, it doesn’t quite mark a sea change in the storage industry since this drive cannot be used in (most) laptops.

Not For Laptops
As we’ve discussed before, modern laptops [...]

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Does Hitachi+SimpleTech = EMC+Iomega?

February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) just bought Fabrik (SimpleTech and G-Technology). So is Hitachi’s combination with SimpleTech a response or challenge to EMC’s acquisition of Iomega? In a word, no.

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Seagate Announces New Constellation Hard Drives

February 4, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Seagate announced this week the release of their new Constellation hard drives. Compared to the Savvio range (which are high-performance, low form-factor), these drives are aimed at lower tier archiving solutions and will scale to 2TB.

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