Posts Tagged ‘Onaro’

Enterprise Computing: Is EMC Storage Configuration Advisor A SANScreen Killer?

EMC have just announced a new product – Storage Configuration Advisor (see the press release here).  A quick review of the press release and the datasheet shows a remarkable similarity to Netapp’s SANScreen.  Both products are pitched as datacentre automation tools – they monitor...
May 13th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

I Stand Corrected

In a previous post earlier this year I mentioned the Onaro purchase by Network Appliance. As I said at the time, I wasn’t aware Onaro’s SANScreen product even had a NAS module. It seems I was wrong, and thanks for Deni O’Connor for indirectly pointing it out. In fact, SANScreen...
January 12th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Two for the price of one

The holidays are over and it’s back to work for me. In fact I returned yesterday; the break was good however it is also good to be back. It seems that I’ve returned to a flurry of acquisitions. Yesterday there was the heavily reported (on the blogosphere) purchase of XiV by IBM. Tony Pearson...
January 3rd, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Certification Nightmare

One of the things I’ve always found a real issue in heterogeneous environments is that of certification. By certification I mean confirming that an installation is vendor supported. This is no mean feat in today’s storage world. There are multiple layers – storage array, fabric, HBA,...
June 6th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More