Posts Tagged ‘barry whyte’

Enterprise Computing: Do We Need FAST v1, EMC?

So, here’s my rash statement from Twitter last night: “If FAST isn’t free, I don’t want it!  All it’s doing is automating process I could script/do manually”.  It’s a bold statement, I know, so is FAST really offering something better than what could be achieved...
October 18th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: What Next For Virtualisation?

Earlier this month, Texas Memory Systems announced they had acquired the intellectual assets of Incipient, a company that produced SAN virtualisation hardware and software.  With Incipient gone, EMC hardly bothering to mention Invista, what is the future of SAN LUN virtualisation?  I talked about...
September 15th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Innovation

“Innovative – featuring new methods or original ideas – creative in thinking” – Oxford English Dictionary of English, 11th edition. There have been some interesting comments over the weekend, specifically from EMC in regard to this post which I wrote on Benchmarketing started...
November 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Get the Balance Right

It’s not very often I side with one vendor or another however after BarryB’s recent post regarding “Benchmarketing” I feel obliged to comment. Have a read of Barry Whyte’s rebuttal too. We see technology advancements because “concept” devices are used to drive...
October 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Moshe Joins The Blogosphere

Moshe Yanai of EMC, XIV and now IBM fame (I’m sure I don’t need to fill in the details) is now blogging. You can catch up with him here. As previously requested, I’m going to start posting my RSS blog feeds, starting with IBM. Tony Pearson – Inside System Storage Blog –...
September 9th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Off The Grid

I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously,...
August 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

XiV Part II

Following on from BarryW’s comment to my XiV post, I’ve been thinking over how the XiVarchitecture works. When a disk fails and the missing mirrors need to be recreated, then the data is likely to exist across all or most of the configured drives. Logically it would make sense that the...
January 7th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Invista

There’s been a few references to Invista over the last couple of weeks, notably from Barry discussing the “stealth announcement”. I commented on Barry’s blog that I felt Invista had been a failure, due to the number of sales. I’m not quite sure why this is so, as I think...
September 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More