Archive for the ‘GestaltIT’ Category
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
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
Enterprise Computing: 4 Pillars – Service: More On Chargeback
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 – Service: Chargeback
In the previous article I discussed the subject of Billing and Chargeback. ...
June 4th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Day – Lab Session – Part IV
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
HP Blades Day – Lab Session: Clip 3
In this final post from the Lab Session, James Singer...
June 3rd, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: 4 Pillars – Service: Chargeback
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 what is available. However there’s...
May 28th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Day – Lab Session – Part III
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 geek in you. James Singer discusses fans; air moving devices...
May 27th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: Violin Memory Inc Release New All-SSD Array
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 moving and...
May 26th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: 4 Pillars – Service: The Service Catalogue
This is a series of posts covering the subject of Storage Management. Previous posts:
http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2010/05/04/enterprise-computing-the-four-pillars-of-storage-management/
http://www.thestoragearchitect.com/2010/05/14/enterprise-computing-4-pillars-service/
As discussed previously,...
May 21st, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: HP Blades Day – Lab Session – Part II
This post is the second of a series of video posts from the HP Blades Day in February 2010. Previous posts:
HP Blades Day – Lab Session – Part I
In this video, James Singer talks about power supplies. This may not seem like the most interesting subject in the world, however as you will...
May 20th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
Enterprise Computing: 4 Pillars – Service
This is a series of posts covering the subject of Storage Management. In this post, I’ll be discussing one of the four foundations, Service and what exactly that means.
My Four Pillars of Storage Management are defined in this initial post. To recap, I define Service as:
“Offering...
May 14th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More
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New White Papers
September 1, 2010 23:09
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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
August 27, 2010 17:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
August 24, 2010 19:08
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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
