Thanks to Glasshouse_Tech on Twitter for referencing this article. Should we be surprised that 15% of respondents had no idea what their storage utilisation was? Not really.
Firstly there’s the general wastage issue – discussed here.
Then there’s the issue [...]
Continue Reading This Post →It’s clear from recent technology announcements that storage is moving towards being a commodity offering. Modular arrays are gaining in popularity as the underlying technology becomes more reliable. Look at the hard disk drive; SATA devices are now capable of 1.2 million hours MTBF. [...]
Continue Reading This Post →OK, I think it was cars the UK government were offering the discount on, not storage arrays. It goes like this; the government has set aside £300m – you trade in a car over 10 years old and get £2000 off the cost of a new one, half funded by [...]
Continue Reading This Post →In a rollercoaster week for the storage industry, Broadcom have made an unsolicited offer to acquire Emulex at $9.25 a share. Read the press release here. Now this, the VMware announcement, Cisco’s UCS and EMC’s new V-Max array got [...]
Continue Reading This Post →There’s no doubting HDS‘ Universal Volume Manager (UVM), aka external storage virtualisation is a cool product. I’ve used it many times – it does the job. However, the main drawback to using the product for me was always cost [...]
Continue Reading This Post →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 story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
Continue Reading This Post →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 story of what private and public clouds will be seems [...]
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