Whilst HDS and EMC throw rocks at each other with regards to whether it is better to build custom parts or take things off the shelf and just use custom when you require. I think we should look beyond the hardware and look at...
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EMC Symmetrix V-Max Is Neither Monolithic Nor Midrange
EMC today announced a new generation of the flagship Symmetrix enterprise storage array by EMC: Initial reactions have compared it to the CLARiiON (with which it shares hardware), the DMX-4 (with which it shares software), the...
EMC Announced Next Generation V-Max Architecture
So, the announcements have started; EMC have unveiled their next-generation version of the Symmetrix high-end storage array family and it is called the V-Max. So I guess previous guesses about DMX-5 or DMX-V weren't far off!
Questioning the Weatherman…
I seem to be doing a lot of thinking about clouds, dynamic data centres and what it all means. I do believe that the architectures of the future will become increasingly dynamic and virtualised. I was playing with EC2 and AWS at...
Amazon – The World’s Bookshop and IT Supplier?
How did a online bookseller become potentially the most important IT Supplier in the world? Were their employees not simply selling books but also devouring them to solve their own internal problems? And without Amazon beginning...
The real cost of storage
What's the real cost of storage? I get asked this question all the time, and it's so difficult to answer because it really does depend on so many factors from storage team to storage team. What's really surprising to me is that...
Governance And Peaks In The Cloud
As large organizations begin to look towards cloud computing, many find themselves questioning the suitability of the infrastructure for their business needs. As consumer-focused services like Carbonite lose data and startup...
Storage Changes in VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4
VMware has cranked out another update to their flagship enterprise product, ESX 3.5. The last update came out in early November, 2008, and included some major new functionality. What’s in store this time to intrigue storage...
Reacting To The Open Cloud Manifesto
Reuven Cohen of Enomaly has penned an Open Cloud Manifesto. This might not have been news but for a curious backlash when two big cloud vendors, Microsoft and Amazon, refused to sign on, although IBM, Sun, and many others have...
Storage Resource Analysis (SRA): Part 6
Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some facts about what causes and what are inconsistencies in storage environments.