Posts Tagged ‘USP-V’

Enterprise Computing: Barclays Bank Services Down Due to Storage Array Problems

It’s been reported in a few places that yesterday Barclays (UK bank) suffered an issue with a “disc array” (presumably they mean disk array) that took out their ATM and online banking systems.  See the comments here and here. Allegedly, Barclays now use USP-V arrays as their back-end...
June 17th, 2009 | Enterprise Computing | 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 Computing | 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 Computing | Read More

USP-V does SATA

So the rumours (here and here) are true. Here’s the announcement to prove it. HDS are going to support 750GB SATA II drives in the USP. This is an interesting position HDS are taking as thin provisioning will be able to take use of the enhanced drive capacity making the USP-V even more efficient...
November 5th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

SPC

According to Wikipedia, lightning can travel at a speed of 100,000 MPH, however I think storage vendors are even faster than lightning when it comes to highlighting or dissing the competition. Mere microseconds after reading Claus Mikkelsen’s blog on the USP-V SPC figures, there are posts from...
October 3rd, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

DMX-4 Green or not?

After the recent EMC announcements on DMX-4, I promised I would look at the question of whether the new DMX-4 is really as green as it claims to be. I did some research and the results are quite interesting. Firstly we need to set the boundaries. One of the hardest part of comparing hardware from different...
July 20th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

New Product Announcement,,,

There’s another new product out this week from HP – the XP24000… It seems to have some similarities to another product launch, 224 ports, thin provisioning, partitioning… _uacct = “UA-1104321-2″; urchinTracker();
May 17th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

USP-V…and another thing

I hate it when I write a post then think of other things afterwards. One more USP-V thought (I’m sure there will be more). One of the drawbacks of the current hardware with virtualisation is the effort to remove/upgrade the USP. Was there anything in the announcements on Monday to cater for...
May 16th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More

USP-V – bit of a let down?

It seems from the posts seen so far on the blogosphere that the USP release is causing a bit of a stir (10 points for stating the obvious I think). So, here’s my take on the announcements so far. First of all, it’s called USP-V – presumably because of the “Massive 500-Percent Increase in Virtualized...
May 15th, 2007 | Uncategorized | Read More