There are a couple of good blog posts worthy of a look over at the Hitachi website this week, good enough for me to post references to them as they aren’t purely about the latest hardware product on offer.
First, Dave Merrill (aka The Storage Economist) talks about storage cost [...]
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Each quarter, Gartner produces a report listing their estimates on figures for sales of external storage arrays, otherwise known as “external controller-based” disk (ECB). The figures for 3Q12 are just out and make interesting reading. IBM, HP, Dell and Oracle are all down on their position 12 months ago, whilst [...]
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At the recent HP Discover event in Frankfurt, HP announced their latest storage products in what was billed as their “most important/exciting announcement in 10 years”. As well as re-branding the storage platforms from IBM-esque naming to more user friendly (and presumably copyright and trademark-able) monikers [...]
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There have been two interesting and contrasting announcements covering cloud storage in the last couple of weeks. The first was NetApp, who have announced “NetApp Private Storage for AWS”. which seems to a proprietary way of replicating data into the AWS cloud. The second comes [...]
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There have been a few interesting articles discussing EMC’s anticipated release of Project X, also known as their XtremIO acquisition from earlier this year. Tom Isakovich, CEO of Nimbus Data has a blog that does a Continue Reading This Post →
This is one of a series of posts discussing the new features in Windows Server 2012, now shipping and previously in public beta as Windows Server 8. You can find references to other related posts at the end of this article. This post reviews the storage feature – data de-duplication.
Background
Everyone wants to reduce [...]
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