Today, IBM alerted the world that they had not fallen asleep at the wheel by kicking out an awfully-impressive midrange storage array, the Storwize V7000. This seems like an excellent device, filled with proven engineering borrowed from the successful SAN Volume Controller (SVC) line of storage virtualization products. But closer examination (and IBM’s own Tony Pearson) reveal that it contains exactly nothing from their Storwize acquisition apart from the name.
V(per)PLEXed?
May 13, 2010 By 1 Comment
Enterprise Computing: What Next For Virtualisation?
September 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software. With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation?
I talked about Incipient last year, here and here when discussing the costs of performing migrations. As [...]
Texas Memory Systems Picks Incipient’s Brain
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Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part V
July 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies. Previous posts:
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part II
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies Part III
Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part IV
Previously we’ve discussed how to plan, structure and organise migrations. In this post, I’ll touch on some [...]
Enterprise Storage?
June 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Myself and Tony Asaro have had a bit of snit over the uniqueness of the USP-V; he opines that it is unique and I am right that it is not unique. In many ways, this comes down to Tony’s opinion that the USP-V is unique because it is the only external storage virtualisation array which is Enterprise Storage. In his opinion neither the v-Series or the SVC are Enterprise Storage and hence do not compete with the USP, DMX and DS8K range. Also in SVC’s case because it does not have it’s own disk and simply virtualises external arrays; it is not a storage device (I’ll leave that comment alone).
EMC Symmetrix V-Max Is Neither Monolithic Nor Midrange
April 14, 2009 By 4 Comments
EMC today announced a new generation of the flagship Symmetrix enterprise storage array by EMC: Initial reactions have compared it to the CLARiiON (with which it shares hardware), the DMX-4 (with which it shares software), the new 3PAR F-Class, the Compellent Storage Center, the HDS USP, and NetApp’s next-generation clustered filers. In every case, the V-Max is different enough to be compellingly new – it’s a true hybrid of monolithic (tiger) and modular (lion), thus its codename, “tigon”!
V is for value??
February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Reacting to the 2008 Storage Products of the Year
February 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The mainstream media is still digesting the Oscar awards, but we in storage had our own announcement this week: TechTarget’s (now non-PDF?) Storage magazine announced their Storage Products of the Year award for 2008. Without further ado, the awards and my reaction!
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 in the 1990’s hunched over custom Excel spreadsheets trying to get my storage layout just right, balancing the workload across every available disk.