The ongoing battle for 3Par by HP & Dell tells us much more about the state of the IT Industry than just the desires of two companies to acquire some interesting storage tech. It signals an acceptance that storage is a key feature in the future direction of the IT industry – more important than [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’ve twice posted now on Data ONTAP 8.0 shortcomings and this evening I did a little more research with the IBM version of Netapp’s hardware, the N-Series products. Fortunately, IBM are slightly more generous and informative in their documentation than Netapp and this document (freely available online) provides more background [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is a series of posts covering the subject of Storage Management. Previous posts:
The Four Pillars of Storage Management Four Pillars: Service Four Pillars: The Service Catalogue Four Pillars – [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is part of a series of posts with video recorded at the HP Blades Day in Houston, February 2010. Previous posts:
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Continue Reading This Post →This is a series of posts covering the subject of Storage Management. Previous posts:
The Four Pillars of Storage Management Four Pillars: Service Four Pillars: The Service Catalogue
In any system, resources are finite. There is always a limitation to [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is part of a series of posts with video recorded at the HP Blades Day in Houston, February 2010. Previous posts:
HP Blades Day – Lab Session: Clip 1 HP Blades Day – Lab Session: Clip 2
This is another post for the hardware [...]
Continue Reading This Post →I’m not a fan of making press releases on behalf of other companies however once in a while, a news item catches my interest. So it is with the announcement of the Violin Memory Inc. 3200 series of all-memory storage arrays. Why are these interesting? Because I think they are [...]
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