Wide-striping is now just another feature; it’s a very important feature but just another feature now. 3Par took wide striping and made it useable; EMC’s historic implementation using metas and hypers was painful and with the...
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Storage Virtualisation and Commoditisation
HDS' Hu makes a point in his latest blog entry in that Storage Virtualisation allows the end-user to turn commodity disk into enterprise disk by sticking it behind a virtualisation appliance; in Hu's case, he'd deeply love that...
Sun Launches Their Own Cloud, But For Which Market?
While the bulk of Sun-related news this week relates to reported talks of a buyout by IBM, the company took a break from negotiations to introduce their own cloud computing and storage infrastructure, challenging Amazon, Google...
Bigger Blue?
IBM were always going to go acquisitive this year and it's no surprise to me that the first target appears to be Sun. As other commentators have already pointed out, this is not a reaction to Cisco's announcement on Monday but...
Is Unified Fabric an Inevitability?
Is the adoption of a unified fabric an inevitability? If so, will it be FCoE or iSCSI that leads the charge?
5 Things About the Cisco Announcement and a Wrap Up (Post Prandial)
So Cisco announced it Intel Servers today. Its kind of exciting if you are into Data Centers and Virtualisation. They have done something very different.
EMC Symmetrix DMX-4: Components
In my previous posts on EMC Symmetrix 3, 5, 8 Series and EMCSymmetrix DMX, DMX-2 Series we discussed some important components comprised in these systems. In this post we will discuss components of EMC Symmetrix DMX-4.
Cisco Enters the Virtual Server Hardware Market
Despite months of hyperbolic warnings, Cisco's release today of their Unified Computing System blade servers (code named Project California) is gentle and evolutionary. The networking giant is challenging HP, IBM, and Dell, to be...
Why Buy EMC?
Enterprise arrays have been successful because they offer high reliability and availability. This was achieved through monolithic designs of high cost components and a focus on engineering quality. That was then - now we have...
Planning for Virtual Infrastructure: Avoid the Pitfalls
Virtualization is seen as the technology that makes it possible to do more with less, but there are many pitfalls to consider when virtualizing server infrastructure. This article suggests planning decisions to be considered...