HDDs, SSDs, and Other Storage System Components
Published on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 6:12 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
"A few years ago, it would have been unheard of to deploy, for example, Exchange [Server] on SATA drives," said Brian Garrett, vice president of the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab in Milford, Mass.
via SAS and SATA, solid-state storage lower data center power consumption.
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
With the technical hurdles behind him, Putterman still faces the challenge of luring the kind of consumers who are easily overwhelmed by the prospect of new, unfamiliar computer equipment, says Terri McClure, a storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, a technology research firm in Milford, Mass.
via Pogoplug: Your own personal ...
Guarantees are often used by emerging vendors because they have to; when market leaders do so, it’s invariably because they want to. EMC now says that its customers will need 20% less raw unified storage capacity in NAS and/or SAN configurations than they’ll need from the competition. Furthermore, EMC has ...
"In a world of horse and carriage, they're talking about a BMW," said Mark Peters, a senior analyst at Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
via Nimbus Data Systems launches Nimbus S-class all-solid-state, no-disk storage system.
Published on Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 2:55 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
The HP StorageWorks XP24000 is HP’s enterprise Tier 1 storage product. In this report, ESG Lab examines recently introduced XP24000 capabilities and features such as 1) external storage disaster recovery (ESDR), 2) solid state disk (SSD), 3) thin provisioning pool reclamation, and 4) dynamic pool rebalancing. ESG Lab has documented ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Tony Palmer |
If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes:
Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks
Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon)
There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and ...
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Both Seagate and Western Digital announced Q2 results last week perhaps signaling a return of confidence in the disk drive channel. Component manufacturers in the enterprise IT channel are an interesting bellwether of market confidence as orders need to be placed in advance of shipments of ...
Well, Happy New Year. It’s 2010, yes? I check, simply because it’s that time of whatever-the-year-is for all the retrospectives and prognostications. There’s nothing wrong with all these sorts of things – indeed I’m nearly finished with an ESG Brief that will try to take an objective view at ...
Symantec announced several enhancements to its Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas Cluster File System products aimed at delivering higher levels of storage optimization and availability. A critical part of transforming a data center into a more efficient and dynamic environment is ensuring the storage domain can keep pace with the ...
