Posts Tagged ‘USP-V’

Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I

Choosing Between Monolithic and Modular Architectures – Part I
The recent proposed acquisition of 3Par by Dell and/or HP has made me think a little more about the direction the storage industry is taking in terms of their storage array design architecture.  Since storage arrays became a category of devices in their own right, we’ve seen the growth of the...
August 24th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Ulitzer | Read More

Hitachi Bloggers Day: Day 0

Hitachi Bloggers Day: Day 0
Here I am again on the start of another vendor blogging day.  As the title of this post suggests, this will be a trip to see Hitachi, or HDS (Hitachi Data Systems) if you prefer.  The Bloggers Day is taking place over two days and is located in San Jose, just south of San Francisco in California. ...
June 14th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured | Read More

Enterprise Computing: VPLEX – Write Back or Write Through?

Enterprise Computing: VPLEX – Write Back or Write Through?
A little discussion on Twitter between myself, @BasRaayman, @UltraSub and @esignoretti got me thinking about the evolution of VPLEX and the whole caching thing.  It’s something I mentioned on one of my previous VPLEX posts and it could have significant impact on designing and implementing VPLEX...
May 18th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, Virtualisation | Read More

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 Storage | 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 Storage | 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 Storage | 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
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