Purpose-built Disk Storage Systems and Appliances
Oracle Exadata is without a doubt one of the hottest topics in the Oracle market landscape. Any organization with a fairly large Oracle database deployment has most likely heard the Oracle Exadata pitch more than once. While many have moved over to the database appliance realizing significant performance enhancements, a ...
There’s a well known Oscar Wilde witticism that says “a cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” And it’s easy at times to get cynical about storage prices for different ‘tiers.’ I (like the market) am pretty big into, and positive about, ...
In my last blog post, I mentioned that much of the underlying stress (a.k.a. user challenge, vendor opportunity) in the world of storage right now is financial, rather then functional. A lot needs to change--or, in some areas, keep changing--real fast for storage to avoid becoming an anchor on the ...
There was an interesting blog today from Steve Duplessie, on the potential end of the disk era. Of course it’s incendiary stuff…and of course the timescales Steve offers may be off a little (one way or the other….who knows what’s around the corner?)…..but the ultimate logic is surely correct. After ...
Lab Reports:
IBM Storwize V7000 Disk System: Enterprise-class Function in a Midrange Storage Package
Published on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 10:39 am | 2 Comments »
Authors: Tony Palmer | Vinny Choinski |
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the IBM Storwize V7000 Midrange Disk System with a focus on the powerful enterprise-class features and functionality offered by the platform, including heterogeneous storage virtualization, thin provisioning, data mobility, and capacity-efficient point-in-time snapshots. Testing was designed to confirm IBM’s ...
Authors: Tony Palmer | Vinny Choinski |
The core architectures of external enterprise storage solutions have gone largely unchanged for the past 20 years. The technology surrounding storage systems, however, has evolved, shifting from bus and tag to SCSI and then to Fibre Channel and IP, and from DAS to SAN and NAS. But core architectures have ...
This ESG Lab report explores the capabilities of an Engenio 2600 storage system deployed in a consolidated virtual server environment with a focus on the value of predictably balanced mixed application performance and application aware storage management plug-ins.
The Challenges
A worldwide wave of server and storage consolidation is reducing the cost ...
There’s a famous Oscar Wilde saying (or a Monty Python parody of Oscar Wilde, I forget which) that goes something like this – “The only think worse than being talked about, is not being talked about.” Based on that, EMC’s ’Cirque du Storage’ event earlier this week ...
Today, Microsoft and HP report on the progress of their extended partnership with the announcement of appliances that target business intelligence and Big Data. Building on the momentum of their Fast Track program and the previously announced HP Enterprise Data Warehouse Appliance, the HP Business Decision Appliance is now available ...
The last five years have been all about IT efficiency–operationally, as well as making “stuff” more efficient. We’ve made storage, networks, and servers more efficient by virtualizing them. Now it’s time to stop concerning ourselves with making gear more efficient and start focusing on making our data ...
