NetApp StorageGrid – More Questions than Answers?

June 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment

NetApp have announced the StorageGrid product, but is it 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 they work out what the hell they are going to do with it and at least come up with an integration strategy for the products.

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Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part IV

December 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

This is the last in a four-part series of posts on the Sun Storage 7000 USS storage arrays.  Previous posts in this series can be found here:
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part I
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part II
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – Part III
Previous posts have discussed the physical [...]

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Unified Storage Problems?

August 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment

NetApp’s unified storage platform is a compelling vision for a customer; one platform to support pretty much all your storage needs. It is a powerful sell, it is still pretty much a USP for them; everyone else has to fake it by glomming together storage products and pretending.

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