Server hypervisors improves utilisation, but what about the attached storage? In fact the server hypervisors are so successful in improving the ability to drive up virtual and physical workloads, that storage can become a casualty. As discussed here earlier. Tintri is another vendor with ideas on how to fix the VMware bottleneck and make a [...]
Posts Tagged VMware
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Netapp Strategy Update
Jul 1
Netapp in June re-stated its focus regarding strategy, priorities and outlook. Netapp’s messages revolves around virtualization & cloud and are permeated by its long term commitment to data centre solutions from medium size up to large scale IT. Conversely, Netapp wants to eradicate any perception that it is a midrange supplier or a mere provider [...]
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 [...]
Overland’s SnapServer family is extended with iSCSI SAN arrays. By targeting the SMB segment with its new SAN functionality, Overland hopes to build on its appeal in the NAS space. The SnapServer line, has led a surprisingly unfulfilled life over many years with its different owners failing to capitalise on the SMB potential in the [...]
On January 25 2010, Symantec released new versions of both its main backup families: Backup Exec and Netbackup. The new releases; Backup Exec 2010 as well as NetBackup 7 goes out on February 1; improved in the areas of de-duplication, server virtualisation and archiving. De-duplication: Based on the same de-duplication engine (PureDisk) both products offers [...]
