Posts Tagged ‘EMC’

Enterprise Computing: COPAN, EMC/VMware & STEC

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: Netapp The $4Billion Product

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: Which Vendors Have the Right Vintage in 2010?

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

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: CLARiiON; Your Mileage May Vary

Enterprise Computing: CLARiiON; Your Mileage May Vary
As part of my work at Storage Fusion, I get to dig into the inner workings of storage arrays in a way most people don’t (either through inclination or time).  One interesting anomaly we discovered this week was the variability in capacities of CLARiiON disks.  What results from this is that...
December 15th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, Featured, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Has EMC Slipped Zero Block Reclaim Into V-Max?

I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max.  Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following: Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space...
December 11th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | 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

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?

Enterprise Computing: Is the Solid State Drive Hype Over?
Have a look at this news report from Barrons.com on their Tech Trader site.  STEC shares lost a whopping 36% as quoted in the article and in fact were down almost 39% for the day.  So have solid state drives lost their sparkle? Barrons also wrote the day before on the STEC earnings call.  The interesting...
November 5th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: VMware, Cisco and EMC Join Forces to Create Acadia

Finally all the speculation is put to rest as VMware, Cisco and EMC announce their joint venture: Acadia.  The “coalition” of the three companies will work together to deliver private cloud infrastructure which utilises Cisco UCS, VMware vSphere and EMC storage hardware.  All of this will...
November 3rd, 2009 | Cloud computing, Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

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
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