Enterprise Computing: Which Vendors Have the Right Vintage in 2010?

There’s no doubt that 2010 will prove to be another tough year in the storage industry. Customers are looking to continue on cost reduction and austerity programmes, squeezing assets as much as they can. Of all the storage vendors out there, which have got the the right vintage to succeed? ...

February 15th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Vendor Guarantees

My previous post regarding HDS and 3Par’s savings guarantees generated a few replies and rather than respond in comment, I’ve written an additional post in case I rant on too much. First thought: vendor guarantees need to be genuine; no hiding behind obtuse configurations that help to fluff...

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

Enterprise Computing: 3par and HDS – 50% Saving – Guaranteed?

In the past week, both 3Par and HDS have announced a 50% guarantee on reclaimed storage if customers move data from existing “fat” legacy arrays to 3Par storage or use HDS thin provisioning technologies. The 3Par news release is here; the Hitachi news release is here. The 3Par guarantee...

January 29th, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Is There Any Point Buying From EMC?

Yesterday, EMC announced Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST), their much hyped and much anticipated storage feature enabling the automated moving of data between tiers of storage on a policy basis. However the most notable missing feature in the EMC announcement was the lack of support for legacy...

December 9th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Gestalt IT Tech Field Day – Day 1: MDS Micro, Xsigo, VMware

Day 1 of the Gestalt IT Field Day started early at 7am with a trip to VMware and their executive briefing centre where breakfast was provided. As well as food, there was an opportunity to see the “data centre in a rack”, used at VMworld to run all of the demo and presentation materials....

November 15th, 2009 | Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

GestaltIT Field Day: "Do You Know…" Contest

The GestaltIT Tech Field Day is only few days away now and you can expect by this time next week we’ll have some interesting posts on the seven presenting sponsors. By way of a warm-up, we’re providing a competition, full details of which can be found here. So, follow the links to...

November 6th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Social Networking: GestaltIT Tech Field Day Confirmed!

No doubt if you follow things on GestaltIT, you will know that the first Tech Field Day has been confirmed. Vendors baked in to present their products are (in no particular order): 3Par, Data Robotics Inc, MDS, Nirvanix, Ocarina Networks and Xsigo Systems. There are a select number of bloggers from...

October 26th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Storage Expo – It's All Over

So Storage Expo is over for another year. As usual it was the mix of meeting old friends, finding out who had moved to work with who and working out how early to head out to the pub! For me, there were a number of interesting take aways: SVC 5.0 – lots of new stuff here that will form part...

October 20th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: So EMC, Where's Your Thin Persistence?

Following on from yesterday’s announcement by 3Par, I’m wondering just where EMC is in the thin reclamation market. HDS have ZPR, which although working as a background collection process, does reclaim zeroed out blocks of data. I believe SVC has similar functionality too. We all know...

October 13th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: 3Par Thin Enhancements

3Par today took the opportunity at SNW USA to announce some enhancements to their thin provisioning technology. The new features are: Thin Conversion. Slims down “stout” storage volumes as they are moved to a thin environment. Thin Copy Reclamation. Reclaims unused space from snapshot...

October 12th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

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