Posts Tagged ‘DL6000 EMC’

InVista – EMC's Problem Child

Remember when EMC offered a fabric-based storage virtualisation product called InVista? Apparently they still do, as a customer of mine mentioned recently. Unfortunately they had trouble getting any sort of decent reference site for the product and weren’t that impressed. I had a quick check...
September 24th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

I Stand Corrected

In a previous post earlier this year I mentioned the Onaro purchase by Network Appliance. As I said at the time, I wasn’t aware Onaro’s SANScreen product even had a NAS module. It seems I was wrong, and thanks for Deni O’Connor for indirectly pointing it out. In fact, SANScreen...
January 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

SPC

According to Wikipedia, lightning can travel at a speed of 100,000 MPH, however I think storage vendors are even faster than lightning when it comes to highlighting or dissing the competition. Mere microseconds after reading Claus Mikkelsen’s blog on the USP-V SPC figures, there are posts from...
October 3rd, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

Using VTLs

The discussion on EMC’s VTL has got StorageZilla and other EMC’ers a little excited. It stems from Barry’s post on the DL6000, a Godzilla of a VTL as I’ve previously discussed before. I think it is worthwhile reviewing the exact point of having a VTL in the first place. Tape...
May 26th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More