EMC is a storage company, right? Not anymore! Under Joe Tucci, the disk giant from Hopkinton has...
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Storage Economics — Hardware Maintenance — Part 2
This blog post is a continuation of yesterday’s post about various aspects of Storage Economics...
Storage Economics — Hardware Maintenance — Part 1
So on several occasions, I have written about Storage management and the cost reduction associated...
EMC Clariion Systems: Global Hot Spares & Proactive Hot...
The concept of Global Hot Spares has been supported in Clariion environments since the first...
The Public Corporate Face of Cloud Computing
As cloud computing becomes more mainstream, investors will start looking to get in on the act. With...
EMC Symmetrix: Dynamic Hot Spares
There are two types of sparing strategies available on EMC Symmetrix Series of machines. In this...
LSI Picks Up ONStor
Just five days after HP announced it would acquire IBRIX, another scale-out NAS provider has been...
EMC Symmetrix: Permanent Sparing
There are two types of sparing strategies available on EMC Symmetrix Series of machines. In this...
HP Acquires Scale-Out NAS Maker, IBRIX
HP woke up the IT world this morning by announcing their acquisition of IBRIX, a maker of scale-out...
EMC Clariion RAID-6 requirements and limitations
In this post, we will discuss all requirements and limitations that are associated with EMC...
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 and Symmetrix V-Max: Basic Differences
In this post we will cover some important aspects / properties / characteristics / differences...
EMC Symmetrix DMX device type, COVD: Cache Only Virtual Device
Here is some information on Cache Only Virtual Devices. I do not have a very clear picture on the...
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Supported drive type
With the release of EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems, EMC introduced higher density EFD’s (Enterprise...
EMC Symmetrix V-Max: Enginuity 5874
EMC Symmetrix V-Max systems were introduced back in the month of April 2009. With this new...
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4: Supported Drive Types
In this blog post we will discuss the supported drive models for EMC Symmetrix DMX-4. Right before...