Below are some notes to the above videos (especially for those in quiet offices who can’t watch the video yet).
I posted the video in response to Marc Farleys recent video and comments on Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, as well as other comments that have been made in blogs and on twitter etc….. All of these comments have been [...]
This post is for anyone interested in Hitachi storage who feels like they’ve had enough HAM for a lifetime and just wants a taste of something different for a change….
One of the projects I’m currently working on involves deploying a new USP V with native SATA disks side-by-side with FC disks (when I say “native”, [...]
Well there has been a lot of confusion the past couple days about the latest announcement from HDS about clustering of the USP-V. I hope to clear up some of the technical details with this post, but I’m sure there will be some questions that remain.
First, lets talk about why someone would want to cluster [...]
Some very early thoughts on yesterdays clustered storage arrays announcement – Hitachi High Availability Manager, or HAM for short.
<this was written while watching the Champions League final and twittering last night so more info might have emerged since I wrote it>
Where I come from in the world, "ham" is pig meat. Let’s hope this doesn’t [...]
Was just thinking through some of the newer storage tech today while driving to and from a customer. It is widely expected that HDS is going to announce the availability of their clustering of the USP-V line of boxes tomorrow. We know that the technology has been built into the microcode and hardware since the [...]
Off topic, but a most worthy cause!
This is the most important content that has ever been, or probably ever will, be posted on this site…….
Nick Glasgow, an EMC employee is dying from Leukaemia and is in desperate need of a bone marrow donor of caucasion-asian ehtnicity.
Please go to Mark Fredrickson’s blog to see if you [...]
UPDATE: Version 0.003.
Updated info on Hitachi, HDS, HP and SunCorrected some typos, clarified some points and corrected some mistakes.
v0.002 updates: Updated content includes section on RAID6 contributed mainly by Devang Panchigar at http://storagenerve.com/ as well as content on RAID1 and HDP 42MB Page size.As a result of feedback relating to the HDP unofficial best [...]
Find the new release here. I think this is awesome news for Sun. This will keep what they have going strong and streamline some of that are on the fringe. I think Ellison summed it up best here:
"The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT industry, combining best-in-class enterprise software and mission-critical computing systems," said Oracle [...]
Since I’m recovering on the couch from a small operation and therefore with time to spare I thought Id join the throng in commenting on Symmtrix V-Max….
For perspective – At the time of writing, I don’t work for EMC and I don’t work for any of their competitors. My own area of expertise is Hitachi [...]
I see Snig has also posted on this topic earlier today and made some interesting points and there may be some overlap…. no harm though.
I started writing this post a few weeks ago as a knee-jerk to Ciscos Unified Computing announcement, but scrapped because it got too long. Todays rehash of the same thoughts is hopefully shorter [...]
I’ve been at SNW all week trying to find out why an end user would want to implement FCoE. Every time I write about it I get a number of vendor responses saying that I’m wrong and that it’s coming and that FCoE will rule the world. Everyone will adopt it and I might as [...]
I saw this over on FailBlog today and had to post it. Enjoy!
As a techie I occasionally come across a technology that I really like, or like the sound of. One such technology is Enterprise Flash Drives/Solid State Drives . I really want to get my hands one some and deploy them in anger. Almost to the point where I would shoehorn it [...]
HDS slipped version 2 of their SRA adapter for Site Recovery Manager out onto VMware's download site. I'm sure there will be an announcement next week at SNW. You can find it here: http://www.vmware.com/downloads/
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So looking through some of the official Cisco bumf on their recent Unified Computing System announcement I noticed the following recurring message "Unify, Simplify, Amplify". Almost wherever I turned, there was the message again "Unify, Simplify, Amplify".
The Borg
Watching one of the Cisco presentations I picked out the following snippets (I quote)
"…away from the manual assembly [...]
Slightly off topic……..
I mentioned recently, to a guy at a vendor, that when looking at an org chart at a vendor, I would be more interested in how close I was to the Engineering department than to the CEO.
So something I read earlier in Dave Hitz's book How to Castrate a Bull struck a chord [...]
I've just been extended an invitation to this upcoming summit in June. I've never been before and have a few questions for anyone that has.
- Is this summit technical in nature or is EMC trying to make sure that writers have their product messaging down?
- If you've been before, did you find it worth your [...]
Recently Hitachi added Zero Page Reclaim functionality to its Dynamic Provisioning (DP) on the USP V. This feature is one from a fairly long list of enhancements on most peoples DP wish list. Other improvements are hopefully in the pipeline.
In this post I'm going to talk about Zero Page Reclaim as well as a possible [...]
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