Posts Tagged ‘thin provisioning’
Virtualisation: DroboPro – Hyper-V’s Best Friend!
I’ve had my DroboPro for some time now and initially I had mixed results with it. Although I was aware of the single connection to an iSCSI target restriction, I was slightly disappointed with the lack of vmfs support within the Drobo operating system, especially as the product sells itself...
March 25th, 2010 | Featured, GestaltIT, Virtualisation | Read More
Enterprise Computing: Run My Storage At 60%? No Way!
Hu Yoshida has an interesting view on his recent post discussing storage utilisation rates. His concluding remark suggests running at a maximum of 60% utilisation – even with Dynamic Provisioning. Hu, you must be joking, right?
Point 1: I’ve paid for my 100% of storage and I’m...
March 17th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More
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 Storage, 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 Storage, 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 Storage | 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 Storage | 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 Storage | 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 Storage, 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 Storage, 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
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New White Papers
September 1, 2010 23:09
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3Par Acquisition: The Future For The Storage Industry
August 31, 2010 10:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part II
August 27, 2010 17:08
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Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
August 24, 2010 19:08
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HP Challenges Dell for 3Par
August 23, 2010 12:08
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Hermann: Chris, I think these articles give a good indication what Fujitsu is heading for http://www.bloomberg.com/news/201...
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Chris Evans: Hermann, thanks for bringing that one up. Is there a specific Fujitsu offering or are you just assuming they have the c...
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Hermann: there is another sleeping giant who has all the assets in place. FUJITSU own Servers (PRIMERGY), own storage (ETER...
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Martin G: NetApp are a polyamorous company as is to be expected with the West-Coast roots. Of course if we take 'Virtually Anythin...
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Chris Evans: Martin You're right, I hadn't explicitly mentioned that partnership. I think the VCE (VMware, Cisco, EMC) partnership ...
- BRCD seems to be seeing an uptick today - up 7.6% already - hoping Dell are on the rebound?
- @Storagezilla I didn't think there were any EVA folks any more (natural selection)
- Erm @3parfarley we expect the first SWCSA to be with @hpstorageguy
- @SteveTodd completely! My record was about 5 peas at the same time.
- I have just eaten a bag of wasabi peas and have what I can only describe as gut ache.
- RT @Storagezilla: Time to go around the horn: 3Par at $2.4B Good deal/Bad deal? (Choose one and retweet.) <- good for 3par bad for purchaser
- @SEPATONJay @storagezilla I guess it's a case of "we will offer more money but we want more consequences if we back out"
- @Storagezilla so that implies only the old agreement is still in place?
- @Storagezilla 3Par's statement doesn't make sense. The reseller agreement is part of revised Dell proposal which they said unacceptable
- [shared] Creation was Godless says Hawking: There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe,... http://bbc.in/9PNCUW
