Posts Tagged ‘FAST’

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

Enteprise Computing: Automated Tiering – Why Move The Data?

There’s been a lot of talk lately about automated storage tiering (not least from myself) and there’s one piece of the puzzle I’m not completely sure has been explored in depth.  Many of the posts refer to physically moving data between tiers of internal (or external) storage.  In...
October 21st, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | 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

Enterprise Computing: EMC Announced Next Generation V-Max Architecture

So, the announcements have started; EMC have unveiled their next-generation version of the Symmetrix high-end storage array family and it is called the V-Max.  So I guess previous guesses about DMX-5 or DMX-V weren’t far off! Naturally, the EMC PR machine is in full flow; blog posts are already...
April 14th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More