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

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: 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: 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

Enterprise Computing: New HP Arrays – Updated

Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years. P2000 G3 MSA (Modular Smart...

February 16th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Virtualisation: Learning The Hard Way

They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am. Here’s what...

January 20th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Virtualisation: How To – Accessing DroboPro Dashboard With iSCSI

In my first review of the DroboPro, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t access the ‘Pro from the Drobo Dashboard when the device is serving out iSCSI LUNs across the IP connection. This restriction is a serious flaw, as it requires taking the DroboPro down and off the network in...

January 6th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Personal Computing: Can Drobo Dashboard Manage Multiple Drobos?

This is a problem that’s been on my mind for some time; can the Drobo Dashboard see more than one device at the same time? Well, it turns out the answer is yes. At first my thought was that it wasn’t possible for the Drobo Dashboard to manage more than one device. Currently I have a...

January 5th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Personal Computing | Read More

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