HDS invited a group of Indystry Analysts to an Analyst Meeting held by Hitachi in Japan. Back home writing this, the meeting clearly has a sad tinge to it given that it was just a week before the devastating earthquake on March 11. Japan has rightly got a great reputation as leading the way in [...]
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HDS Analyst Day
Mar 23
HDS launched its new high-end VSP disk system this week. It features: SSD tier-0 Dynamic Tiering Thin Provisioning Faster controller processors, more bandwidth Lower energy footprint High-end or Midrange? The disk system vendors in the high-end segment are catering for very big arrays, while this segment has been under pressure from the high-end of midrange [...]
Dell to buy 3PAR
Aug 16
Dell announced this morning that 3PAR has agreed to be acquired for $1.15Bn. (See previous 3PARpost from last Tuesday). The attraction for Dell is that it adds an enterprise class product to its portfolio, so fills a stragic aim. Dell will also undoubtedly be able to grow revenues quicker and faster than 3PAR on its [...]
EMC recently celebrated EMCWorld by announcing VPLEX, showing yet another vendor announcing a new layer to manage storage. If the traditional array was a purpose built computer dedicated to serve up storage, innovation soon demanded boxes that tinkered with this model. There have been many permutations of doing things differently, but with the same building [...]
HDS on April 19 announced its intention to develop and deliver an open, unified compute platform catering for servers, storage, network and applications. Other vendors have also articulated similar unified computing visions such as EMC/VMware/Cisco with Vblock and HP with Matrix. HDS at this early stage articulates a concept of a “Scalable, unified compute platform [...]
Symantec enhances Veritas Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster File System and Veritas Cluster Server. In this announcement Symantec Dec 7 announcement improves the functionality of Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF) by such features as thin provisioning, enhancing failover and recognising SSD, as well as adding performance. Thin API. Veritas File System provides thin reclamation on third party [...]
