Storage
So, it’s been a busy old week or two in the land of fun and speculation – and, yes, when I say that, I’m talking storage! The last two Mondays have been dominated by ‘thin’ news – first Dell bids for 3PAR and then HP enters (at least ...
Tony Palmer, senior engineer and analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, said Coraid's value is that it provides a storage system that is easy to manage at a low cost.
via Coraid EtherDrive array targets cloud storage.
Brian Garrett, vice president, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) Lab, was part of an ESG team that tested EMC's new unified storage capabilities, and was also impressed by the new Unisphere.
via EMC ships primary data reduction, FAST for solid-state drives (SSDs), unified management.
Why? Several reasons.
HP wants to own the IP of high-end storage, not OEM it.
3PAR is sort of the only game in town in the next high-end wave that can conceivably take on Symmetrix, USPV, or Shark. Note I say conceivably.
HP believes (accurately) that 3PAR’s growth or lack ...
Virtualization turns physical devices into a set of resource pools that are independent of the physical asset they run on. This abstraction makes it easier to implement standardized measurement, monitoring, and management of resources. It also eliminates the economic and operational issues of infrastructure silos. All told, virtualization delivers compelling ...
Published on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 at 3:29 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
This ESG Lab report documents hands-on testing of EMC Unified Storage with a focus on major usability and efficiency upgrades, Unisphere integrated management, Enhanced VMware integration, FAST Cache, FAST Automated Storage Tiering, and Primary Data Compression.
Background
For many years, the total amount of storage users needed to support application and file ...
Authors: Ginny Roth | Tony Palmer |
Having been off the blogging trail for a while, I’ve been aware that whenever I re-start, it had better be about something interesting and preferably important. After all you don’t want to appear to be giving too much emphasis to something of little consequence; that said of course, ...
Another one bites the dust. 3Par has joined the BBQ. David Scott in a line dance. Yee Haw!
Why did they do it? Two reasons – 1. 3Par was the only legit truly high-end competitor at the ranks of Symmetrix and USP and Shark. If you wanna be in ...
This report examines a promising new category of technology—Ethernet SAN—that may be poised to disrupt the economics of the storage industry. Coraid’s EtherDrive SAN storage family leverages scale-out design and raw Ethernet to deliver an impressive blend of performance, scalability, and simplicity at a price point that is a ...
Is cloud computing real? Yes. When you sort through the hype and evaluate collective industry R&D efforts, cloud computing options may arrive sooner than most believe. In fact, smart CIOs are already assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each workload should run—locally or in the ...
