Storage hypervisors is a term that is not as easily understood as that of the server hypervisor. In this post we look at the term storage hypervisor and why a change to the Wikipedia entry has been proposed. If it is good enough on servers, will it work on storage? On the server side the [...]
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Storage concepts come and go. In this post some of the current hot storage concepts are being explored, and we leave the defunct ones for the historians. Storage Virtualisation Virtualised storage has had an admirable longevity even if it is not necessarily used as it was 10 years ago. Today most people understand it as [...]
Having sat through numerous recent briefings about the relative benefits of fast storage, facts have been plentiful. This is about semiconductor based storage. In the following, I refer to this as SSD even though some implementations are not strictly speaking adhering to the SSD definition. SSD Based Innovation Those pesky old-fashioned spinning HDDs have the [...]
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 [...]
The Dell Storage Forum was held in Orlando Florida; a continuation of what used to be called Compellent C-Drive. As the name implies it is a customer event focused on storage. As I have stated before, Dell the company and Dell the CEO, intends the company to be like HP and IBM (Dell the Challenger). [...]
It was as late as in December 2008, that EMC announced the extension of its reseller agreement with Dell and both CEOs took part in an interview. This video can still be found on EMC site in several versions EMC Dell but a longer version is available on EMC Dell youtube . In the video [...]
EMC – Breaking a Few Records
Jan 18
EMC today launched a slew of announcements, probably the most the company ever made in a single event. The over-all banner for the announcement, which had been attempting to gather much publicity in advance was ‘Record Breaking’. In the event Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger, CEO and COO respectively, was joined on stage by 26 [...]
Cloud Storage is attracting initial interest, not least as off-site backup has been around way before the term Cloud was coined. This blog post demand-factors-in-storage-cloud addressed where initial demand comes from. Scepticism on the other hand arises from issues such as building the access points and the nature of providers who participate in the supply [...]
Dell the Challenger
Aug 31
The bid for 3PAR Dell caught the storage world’s attention when it made a bid that eventually got it into a bidding war with HP over 3PAR. At the time of writing the outcome of this battle is not settled, but the acquisitive Dell is squaring up to HP, EMC, IBM and Oracle. The bidding [...]
