Virtualization is seen as the technology that makes it possible to do more with less, but there are...
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Cisco is Wishfully Wishing for FCoE Sales?
Omar Sultan from Cisco is wishing that FCoE would actually get some sales. You see, Cisco bought...
FCoE and the Return of Spanning Tree
One of the most amusing parts about Fibre Channel over Ethernet(FCoE) is that Spanning Tree is...
Microsoft Recognizes FCoE With Logo Program
Although there is no word on a Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) initiator in the vein of their...
Wire-Speed 10 Gb iSCSI, Anyone?
Along with many tidbits about storage advances in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, this WinHEC...
EMC Symmetrix DMX – RAID 6 Implementation
EMC has been a market leader in bringing new innovative technology to the IT forefront. With the...
Expectations with new Generation of DMX Technology
There has been a big chatter about the next generation of EMC machines. After the initial release...
Reacting to the 2008 Storage Products of the Year
The mainstream media is still digesting the Oscar awards, but we in storage had our own...
Next Generation Celerra — Unified Storage with Deduplication
EMC today announced its next generation Celerra NAS. EMC is pushing the technology towards unified...
Let’s Talk Pricing
The third rail of enterprise IT is the shockingly opaque and flexible pricing schemes applied to...
HP’s RAID 6 (ADG – Advanced Data Guarding)
HP Storage Products traditionally have support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 1+0, RAID 5 and now RAID-6...
NetApp’s RAID-DP (Enhanced RAID 6)
Continuing the quest on RAID 6, with my previous post related to HDS’s RAID 6, here is a post...
Hitachi’s (HDS) RAID 6
Hitachi (HDS) has been one of the pioneers in implementing RAID 6 in their storage products. This...