Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part I

This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center Storage Array. Compellent Inc, founded in 2002, produces the Storage Center product, a SAN storage array build around commodity hardware. In addition to providing advanced features found on newer storage arrays (such as thin provisioning),...

September 6th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Reviews, Ulitzer | 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

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

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

Netapp: The Inflexibility of Data ONTAP

Thanks to @ianhf for posting a related blog entry berating Netapp for their lackadaisical approach in delivering features in Data ONTAP that customers really want. My original post is here; @ianhf’s post is here. I urge you to read it as it takes what I was saying a whole step further and...

August 4th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Netapp: The Inflexibility of Flexvols

I’ve just been reading up on Data ONTAP 8.0 as part of some ongoing work I’m doing. You may be aware that version 8.0 of the filer operating system brings two major features; 64-bit support and the (sort of) integration of the Spinnaker code to create the multi-node version of ONTAP (called...

August 2nd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

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