Posts Tagged ‘HDS’

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

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: Hitachi Enters The Cloud

Yesterday Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) used SNW USA to release information on their proposed cloud strategy, referred to as “Agile Cloud”.  Everyone believes they need a cloud story and clearly Hitachi are no different. Taken from the presentation I was given last week, is the following...
October 14th, 2009 | Cloud computing, GestaltIT | 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: Data Migration Strategies – Part V

This is the final post in a series on Enterprise Data Migration Strategies.  Previous posts: Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part I Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies – Part II Enterprise Computing: Data Migration Strategies Part III Enterprise Computing: Data Migration...
July 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate

Enterprise Computing: The Wide Striping Debate
I’ve read with interest this week the posts on wide striping and the consequent expansion to thin provisioning.  Here are some of the highlights: First there’s Martin Glasborow’s post, which discusses whether wide striping and thin provisioning should be chargeable items.  I’d...
July 12th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More

Enterprise Computing: USP-V – So Long And Thanks For All The Fish

So HDS’s announcement has turned out to be a complete disappointment.  What it’s not: It’s not new hardware. It’s not providing more physical capacity. It’s not providing dynamic tiering. It’s not providing enhanced replication technology. What is on offer is the...
May 27th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: The New USP – A Dreary Storage Cluster?

Well, I truly hope not.  Let me just explain what I’m talking about and things may become a bit clearer. HDS have started their viral marketing for an announcement being made on 27th May.  Claus Mikkelsen’s latest blog entry asks us to guess what the announcement will be, based on an acronym...
May 21st, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: HDS Switches On Virtualisation For Free

There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product.  I’ve used it many times – it does the job.  However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost (I mentioned this only a few weeks ago on this...
April 22nd, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More
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