Why Storage Federation Is What We Need

May 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

You may have assumed from my previous post on VPLEX that I am negative towards the concept of storage federation. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, ever since I was involved in deploying ESX onto enterprise storage infrastructure (some 4 years ago), I’ve been waiting for the day true federation would arrive. Here’s why.

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EMC VPLEX – A Dreary Storage Cluster?

May 14, 2010 By 4 Comments

With the usual EMC fanfare, VPLEX has been heralded as “a new storage platform“. For a product that appears to contain no storage at all (and in fact writes through to the underlying virtualised arrays before confirming I/O to the host), I can’t quite see how the claim stacks up.

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EMC VPLEX: New Device or Future Array?

May 13, 2010 By 2 Comments

In VPLEX, do we see the future of EMC storage? Or more accurately, do we see the future of Symmetrix? Is it the beginning of the end for Symmetrix and more importantly, Enginuity. The final break from the past?

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V(per)PLEXed?

May 13, 2010 By 1 Comment

So we have VPLEX and despite some scratching of heads as to what it is; it is really quite simple, “storage access is further decoupled from storage physicality.” And this really is nothing especially new; decoupling the storage access from storage physicality has been going on for some time.

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EMC Shouts VPLEX In A Crowded EMCWorld

May 10, 2010 By 6 Comments
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Amid much fanfare and, EMC launched VPLEX today at EMCWorld 2010 in Boston. The company previously outlined the vision for globally-distributed federated storage, but today’s announcement adds both meat and bone to that concept. EMC promises that VPLEX will transparently move data (and thus workloads) between storage systems locally or across a metro area and the company will eventually enable this technology across global distances.

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