A new product from Emulex called E3S or Emulex Enterprise Elastic Storage appears to allow block-level data to be migrated into the cloud for later access. But is it a backup solution; is it a replication solution? Let’s think...
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Stuff Happens!
Outages happen; big horrible nasty outages happen. In a career which now spans over twenty years, I've been involved with probably half a dozen; from PDUs catching fire due to overload to failed air-conditioning to wrong...
Xeon 5500 CPUs and EVC in vSphere
In case you're wondering—OK, so it's probably only geeks like me that wonder about these sorts of things—putting a Xeon 5500-based server into a cluster with older servers and using EVC to ensure VMotion compatibility...
Cisco Launching Full Assault On Data Center Server Market
In case you were wondering, Cisco isn't playing games with the Unified Computing System. Their aim is to take on IBM, HP, and Dell and become a major player in the data center server market.
Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation
Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage...
Cisco C-Series: UCS Without The Blades
Cisco today announced a new Unified Computing System (UCS) server form factor: The C-Series rack-mount server. The C-Series features the same features found in the existing B-Series UCS blades but starts much smaller and cheaper...
Enterprise Storage?
Myself and Tony Asaro have had a bit of snit over the uniqueness of the USP-V; he opines that it is unique and I am right that it is not unique. In many ways, this comes down to Tony's opinion that the USP-V is unique because it...
EMC Takes On NetApp For Data Domain’s Affections
EMC (NYSE:EMC) started a gunfight in the storage world today by offering an astonishing $1.8 billion for data deduplication sweetheart, Data Domain (NASDAQ:DDUP). This $30 per share offer one-ups rival NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) by $5...
HDS High Availability Manager: How It Works
It has been two days since HDS introduced High Availability Manager ("HAM" to us), disappointing some and confusing others. Now that the dust has settled some, it has become clearer just what HAM is and how it works, and we come...
Sort of Right, Kind of Wrong!
Steve Duplessie is both right and wrong in his post on SSDs. He is right that simply sticking SSDs into an array and treating them as just Super Speedy Disk can cause yet more work and heartache! Concepts such as Tier 0 are just...