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 Storage, 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 Storage | 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 Storage | 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 Storage | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Using USP for Migrations

Thanks to Hu Yoshida for the reference to a previous post of mine which mentioned using virtualisation (USP, SVC, take your pick) for performing data migrations. As Hu rightly points out, the USP, USP-V, NSC55 and USP-VM can all be used to virtualise other arrays and migrate data into the USP as part...

January 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More

Storage Predictions for 2009

It’s the end of another year and of course time to the obligatory posts on predictions in the industry for the next 12 months. True to form, I’ve spent some time thinking and here are my top 5 ruminations for the coming year. EMC join SPC. EMC will finally have the epiphany we’ve...

December 23rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Betamax

In case you don’t always go back and look at comments (and let’s face it, it’s not easy to track them), then have a look at Tony’s comment from my post yesterday. It’s good to see a bit of banter going on and that’s what HDS could do with. HDS have hardly developed...

December 4th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

2 Days, 2 Bod Posts

For the second time in two days I find myself drawn to comment on a Storagebod related post. The subject today is Tony Asaro’s rant on one of StorageBod’s recent posts denegrating virtualisation. Now let’s get things clear – I like HDS’s implementation of virtualisation....

December 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Just Delete It Claus, Just Delete It

Claus Mikkelsen has woken up recently and started posting after a large break. Perhaps he’s preparing for all those impending Christmas deliveries. Anyway, the crux of his post it to explain how he’s moved from 2-4TB of home storage rather than take the time to sort out the mess of his...

November 18th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

SMI-S Is Dead

Take it from me, SMI-S is a thing of the past. If there’s one thing the last few months have taught me it’s how different each vendor’s products really are. I’ve been working on a tool called SRA (see the link here) which will report on storage in a consistent manner. Let...

October 30th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

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