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: Thin Provisioning and The Cookie Monster!

The Gestalt IT Field Day was a great success in bringing together a mixture of delegates from varying discplines. Following the presentations from 3Par and Symantec, there was heated debate about the implementation of Thin Provisioning and the ability to reclaim released storage resources. This post...

November 17th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part II

This is the second of a series of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product. Previous post(s) can be found at: Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part I In the first post of this review, I explained how StarWind’s...

October 28th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | Read More

Review: StarWind Enterprise Server – Part I

This is the first of a number of posts reviewing the StarWind Enterprise Server iSCSI software target. The posts relate to version 4 of the product. Not everyone wants or can afford to buy dedicated storage arrays, especially in current climates. So if you don’t want to spend money on a...

October 26th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | 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: 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: Why Thin Provisioning Is Not The Holy Grail for Utilisation

Thin Provisioning (Dynamic Provisioning, Virtual Provisioning, or whatever you prefer to call it) is being heavily touted as a method of reducing storage costs. Whilst at the outset it seems to provide some significant storage savings, it isn’t the answer for all our storage ills. What is...

June 4th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing, GestaltIT | Read More

Enterprise Computing: VMware Announce vSphere 4

In case you haven’t noticed, the next chapter in the story of the unstoppable juggernaut that is VMware is here. It’s called VMware vSphere 4 (dropping the Virtual Infrastructure moniker) but is still essentially the same as the previous VMware with incremental improvements. The full...

April 21st, 2009 | Virtualisation | Read More

Thin Provisioning or Good Practice, which is best? There's only one way to find out – Fight!

Marc Farley makes some interesting comparisons to storage purchasing decisions in a recent post. For the sake of disclosure, I do go to Costco and buy in bulk – no not 200lbs of chicken wings, but those things that can be divided and/or frozen (like salmon and coffee) – and more crucially...

November 25th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

You Sunk My Battleship!

I spent some time today with the good folks at 3Par, as offered by Marc Farley a few posts ago. It was good to get more of a background on the product and also see what’s happening in the future (although I can’t talk about that!). I think most of their technology is fairly well known...

November 11th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

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