Dell’s first ever European Storage Forum ended today in London. It was similar in format to the Florida event I attended, about which I wrote this post. This meant senior execs flying in to first of all meet customers, but also channel partners, industry analysts, bloggers etc. And to participate in hospitality with the attendees. [...]
What Technology Means?
Jan 9
What are your favourite examples of the pinnacle of human engineering: The aluminium drink can? A Saturn V rocket? Sophisticated programming code running on a microprocessor? All three are examples of engineering beauty demonstrating complexity and sequences of many individual events that together formed the basis of the end product. Referring to technology in these [...]
Bridgeworks is a UK based storage protocol network bridging specialist. Recently it developed bridges for Fibre channel, iSCSI and SCSI. The company recently briefed me about eliminating a significant amount of elapse time at customer CVS in the US. TCP/IP latency The product range is called SANSlide and is speeding up data transmission over distances. [...]
In fact object storage is not exactly new, but it is a proposition mushrooming with a number of new vendors. And, it does require a fair bit of explanation and as a consequence has still got an air of novelty about it. Revision update The 1st version of this post was published on Nov. 23. [...]
Lately the European storage industry used a couple of IT shows to demonstrate just how much new life there is in new storage vendors. One of which was Avere at SNW in Frankfurt. The Avere executives has brought many years of experience from distributed files systems and clustering to bear in optimised NAS storage and [...]
De-mystifying VCE
Oct 13
VCE has been under a veil of mystery, which was partly created by the company itself. VCE produces Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms and is the joint venture of EMC, CISCO and VMware with Intel as an investor. The behaviour of the competitors of this trio has showed that there is a real fear that VCE may [...]
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is articulating a storage strategy of building out its own portfolio and only partnering with a select few. EMC becomes the casualty. Globality Fujitsu corporate, which once operated with different approaches in its different regions is now pursuing a Globalised approach. The overall corporate goal is to establish Fujitsu as an IT [...]
On August 24, Drobo announced the B1200i which is designed to support applications such as VMware and Microsoft Exchange. Yet another data centre move for Drobo as the company increasingly depends on the revenue it gets from its IT department customers. Previously I noted that Drobo “needs to communicate with IT professionals in a language [...]
Is the heading of this post as well as the heading of the Oracle press release on June 29th. It has been digested by many storage pundits focusing on the supposed failure of Pillar and Larry Ellison’s attempt to recover his investment in Pillar. Briefly: the deal folds Pillar into the Oracle storage organisation and [...]
On June 30 IBM broadcast to the wider world the summary of a paper presented at the International Memory Workshop. The content was about the progress IBM scientists have made in semiconductor based storage. So, no product announced nor a roadmap for a commercial implementation. The topic is Phase Change Memory (PCM), which IBM thinks [...]
