Posts Tagged ‘Netapp’

Enterprise Computing – Death of Tiering?

Enterprise Computing – Death of Tiering?
I’m not the first to post on the subject of Netapp’s President and CEO Tom Georgens commenting during their latest earnings call on the apparent death of tiering as we know it today. In Netapp’s view, there will be no tiering of storage in the future.  Instead we will be using SATA...
February 23rd, 2010 | Enterprise Computing, Featured | 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: 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: Symantec FileStore

Today Symantec are announcing their scalable NAS product called FileStore.  This simple appliance claims to offer linear scaling for up to 2PB of storage per cluster, leveraging all the benefits of the Veritas storage products we’ve come to know and love over the years.  But what chance has...
October 5th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing – Netapp's £1,000,000 Giveaway

On 1st September, Netapp announced a programme to give away $1,000,000 of hardware and services to a non-Netapp customer in order to “prove” their Virtualisation Guarantee – save 50% of your storage in virtualised environments.  Now that challenge is available to UK customers –...
September 7th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: A Myopic View of Unified Storage

I’ve only just stumbled on Kostadis’ video on Unified Storage.  In case you’re not familiar with the concept, here’s his definition: A piece of hardware that has CPU, Memory and disk That supports FC, iSCSI, CIFS and NFS That has a common management console for all storage...
July 15th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Enterprise Computing: Netapp and Efficiency – Managing Perception

A quick discussion last night on Twitter got me thinking about the way technology is perceived in the industry at large.  In particular, the discussion related to Netapp and in my usual facetious way I said I wouldn’t quote Netapp and Efficiency in the same sentence (whoa, I just did!).   I...
March 11th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Who Ya Gonna Call?

Here’s a quality piece of reporting from TechCrunch on the state of Facebook and their data problems. I mentioned just last week in this post about their data growth. It’s incredible that they’re purchasing a new Netapp 3070 filer each week! I’m surprised that Facebook would...
October 31st, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More
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