Articles By: Chris Evans
New White Papers
There are three new white papers available on the site that may be of interest. They are:
Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
http://thestoragearchitect.tradepub.com/free/w_fnet24
Availability and the Cloud
http://thestoragearchitect.tradepub.com/free/w_fnet22/
The Economic Impact of File Virtualization:...
September 1st, 2010 | Uncategorized | Read More
3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
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...
August 31st, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT, Ulitzer | Read More
Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
This is a series of post discussing storage array architectures. Previous posts:
Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
In the first post, I discussed the shared storage model architectures typified by what we sometimes think of as Enterprise arrays, but I’ve...
August 27th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Ulitzer | Read More
Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture. Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the...
August 24th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Ulitzer | Read More
HP Challenges Dell for 3Par
So there we have it. A week after Dell announce their intention to acquire 3Par, HP put their cards on the table and trump the Dell bid with an updated offer of $24 a share. This represents a 1/3 increase over the Dell $18/share offer.
HP have been pretty acquisitive in the storage arena over the...
August 23rd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Ulitzer | Read More
Free Whitepapers on The Storage Architect
I’ve added a new section to the site, which you can find at the top of the navigation bar – “Storage White Papers“. The selections are free, specifically storage orientated and here are a few examples to get you started:
Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
Availability and the...
August 19th, 2010 | Uncategorized | Read More
Dell to Acquire 3Par
There’s nothing like a bit of surprise (ish) tech news to generate an off the cuff quick post; here’s today’s tidbit. Dell are to acquire 3Par.
Clearly the Farley Curse has struck again and for a mere $1.15 billion Dell plugs another gap in their storage portfolio.
Let’s face...
August 16th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More
Data ONTAP 8.0 – Part III
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...
August 9th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT, Ulitzer | Read More
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part III
This is a series of posts on the Promise SmartStor NS4600 home storage server. Previous posts:
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part I
Hardware Review: Promise SmartStor NS4600 – Part II
In this post, we will discuss file layout, formats and protocols available on the NS4600. ...
August 9th, 2010 | Personal Storage, Reviews | Read More
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
Well, it appears from comments on recent blog entries that I’m all of the above! The post(s) in question are as follows;
http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2010/08/02/netapp-the-inflexibility-of-flexvols/
http://storagebod.typepad.com/storagebods_blog/2010/08/and-bod-makes-three.html
http://www.grumpystorage.com/2010/08/notapp-random-thoughts.html
http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/netapp-some-good-and-some-errrrr/
I...
August 8th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage | Read More
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New White Papers
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3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
August 31, 2010 10:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
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HP Challenges Dell for 3Par
August 23, 2010 12:08
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Hermann: Chris, I think these articles give a good indication what Fujitsu is heading for http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201...
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Chris Evans: Hermann, thanks for bringing that one up. Is there a specific Fujitsu offering or are you just assuming they have the c...
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Hermann: there is another sleeping giant who has all the assets in place. FUJITSU own Servers (PRIMERGY), own storage (ETER...
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Martin G: NetApp are a polyamorous company as is to be expected with the West-Coast roots. Of course if we take 'Virtually Anythin...
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Chris Evans: Martin You're right, I hadn't explicitly mentioned that partnership. I think the VCE (VMware, Cisco, EMC) partnership ...
- BRCD seems to be seeing an uptick today - up 7.6% already - hoping Dell are on the rebound?
- @Storagezilla I didn't think there were any EVA folks any more (natural selection)
- Erm @3parfarley we expect the first SWCSA to be with @hpstorageguy
- @SteveTodd completely! My record was about 5 peas at the same time.
- I have just eaten a bag of wasabi peas and have what I can only describe as gut ache.
- RT @Storagezilla: Time to go around the horn: 3Par at $2.4B Good deal/Bad deal? (Choose one and retweet.) <- good for 3par bad for purchaser
- @SEPATONJay @storagezilla I guess it's a case of "we will offer more money but we want more consequences if we back out"
- @Storagezilla so that implies only the old agreement is still in place?
- @Storagezilla 3Par's statement doesn't make sense. The reseller agreement is part of revised Dell proposal which they said unacceptable
- [shared] Creation was Godless says Hawking: There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe,... http://bbc.in/9PNCUW
