Today HDS and HP will announce the next generation enterprise storage array architecture from Hitachi (see details here and here). Both companies OEM the VSP (HDS name) or 9500 (HP name) and so the releases are co-ordinated to occur at the same time. I am [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Last week I was invited to attend HP’s Cloud Computing Tech Day in Cupertino. Like all of these events, it didn’t last a single day but was spread over 1.5 days on 9/10 September. I’ll freely admit that Cloud is not my main area of expertise, however I was pleased to be invited to this [...]
Continue Reading This Post →This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center SAN Array. Previous Posts:
Review: Compellent Storage Center – Part I
In this post we’ll discuss the logical configuration, connectivity and protocols available on the Compellent Storage Center array, including the way disks are grouped and LUNs are created [...]
Continue Reading This Post →Last Friday I was a guest on the latest Infosmack podcast, with special guest Chad Sakac. One of the topics was Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager 2.0 (initially in beta). You can read more details in the Continue Reading This Post →
This is a series of posts reviewing the Compellent Storage Center Storage Array.
Compellent Inc, founded in 2002, produces the Storage Center product, a SAN storage array build around commodity hardware. In addition to providing advanced features found on newer storage arrays (such as thin provisioning), the Compellent device has one unique (for now) feature [...]
Continue Reading This Post →There are three new white papers available on the site that may be of interest. They are:
Create a Smarter Storage Strategy
http://thestoragearchitect.tradepub.com/free/w_fnet24
Availability and the Cloud
http://thestoragearchitect.tradepub.com/free/w_fnet22/
The Economic Impact of File Virtualization: Reducing Costs and Improving Efficiency for File-Based Storage
http://thestoragearchitect.tradepub.com/free/w_fnet09/
As usual I welcome any feedback as to whether this part of [...]
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