Articles By: Chris Evans

Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation

I finally managed to attend a London CloudCamp last Thursday, which conveniently co-incided with a #storagebeers evening. For two hours of listening to the collective wisdom of the presenters and the “unpanel” we were offered free beer and food. Now free beer is good, however I’m...

March 15th, 2010 | Cloud computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: COPAN, EMC/VMware & STEC

Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye. Here’s a brief paragraph on them. SGI Acquires COPAN Systems In fact to be more precise, SGI have acquired some of the assets of COPAN and left the liabilities behind for a mere $2 million in cash (press release). The demise...

March 11th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day – Roundup

Here’s my roundup of all the posts, pictures, video and comments from the HP Blades Tech Day Tweets The official hashtag for the event was #hpbladesday with hundreds of tweets being generated from the start of the Tech Day until now. Bloggers’ Posts By name order, here are the relevant posts...

March 10th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Virtualisation: Home Lab Update

Home lab storage I’ve just about got my home lab fully organised; here’s a quick summary of what I have in place. Storage I’ve four main storage devices, DroboPro, Iomega ix4-200D (two) and an EMC CLARiiON CX-700. This gives me NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity options...

March 9th, 2010 | Featured, Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 2

Day 2 of HP Blades Day took place in a new location – the Customer Experience Centre. This was due to issues with Wifi on day 1, now resolved in our new location. Order of the day was: Review of the previous day’s presentations with a quick question & answer session Presentation...

March 5th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Sun/Oracle Kicks Hitachi To The Kerb

I’ve just been reading Greg Knieriemen’s post over at iknerd.com on the ending of Sun/Oracle’s OEM agreement with Hitachi to resell their high end storage arrays. On the one hand I’m surprised by the announcement; on the other I’m not. Sun have resold Hitachi for some...

March 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 1

HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was. Here’s a summary of the day’s activities: Overview of ISB (Infrastructure Software and Blades) from Gary Thome Partner Presentation from Mark Gonzalez Overview of Virtual Connect from Mike Kendall BladeSystem lab (hands...

March 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 0

Some of you may be aware that I’m heading to Houston today for an HP sponsored field day looking at blade technology. I have to admit that blades are not my area of speciality, in fact I know precious little about them other than the obvious. Having said that, this is a time to start being more...

February 24th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing – Death of Tiering?

I’m not the first to post on the subject of Netapp’s President and CEO Tom Georgens commenting during their latest earnings call on the apparent death of tiering as we know it today. In Netapp’s view, there will be no tiering of storage in the future. Instead we will be using SATA...

February 23rd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Netapp The $4Billion Product

I had a conversation last week with a PR company doing research for Netapp. This followed just after Netapp released their Q4 results, with revenue exceeding expectations at just over $1 billion. It’s amazing how in the space of less than 20 years they have developed from nothing to a company...

February 22nd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Cloud Computing: Cloud /= Virtualisation
March 15, 2010 13:03
Enterprise Computing: COPAN, EMC/VMware & STEC
March 11, 2010 10:03
Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day – Roundup
March 10, 2010 06:03
Virtualisation: Home Lab Update
March 9, 2010 07:03
Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Tech Day 2
March 5, 2010 06:03

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