Posts Tagged ‘Wide Striping’
Enterprise Computing: The Benefits of Wide Striping – Avoiding A Long Tail
IOPS Per RAID Group, ordered by most to least
I took part in a podcast last night that discussed the XIV platform. One of the “key features” of XIV is the wide striping of data across all spindles. It’s a concept we’re seeing more and more in contemporary storage hardware...
March 18th, 2010 | Enterprise Storage, Featured, GestaltIT | 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: 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
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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
