Over the last week there have been a few stories catching my eye:
– SGI Acquires COPAN Systems
– EMC Sells IP to VMware
– STEC Shares Get Punished

Day 2 of HP Blades Day took place in a new location – the Customer Experience Centre. We reviewed the previous day’s presentations with a quick question & answer session, learned about client virtualisation (VDI), and took a factory tour.

HP Blades Tech Day 1 is now over and what a whirlwind of a day it was. Here is a summary of the day’s activities.

I had a conversation last week with a PR company doing research for Netapp. This followed just after Netapp released their Q4 results, with revenue exceeding expectations at just over $1 billion. It’s amazing how in the space of less than 20 years they have developed from nothing to a company selling a single $4 billon product.

Today HP will announce two new storage arrays. Although taken from different product families, the hardware will be branded in a consistent manner, demonstrating HPs desire to bring together a range of storage technologies they’ve purchased over the last few years.

They say that you learn the most when you make mistakes and things go wrong. Well, last night I certainly must have learned a lot. What started as a simple physical re-organisation of my hardware turned into a rebuild of my production VMware ESXi server – finishing at 1am.

In my first review of the DroboPro, I was somewhat disappointed that I couldn’t access the ‘Pro from the Drobo Dashboard when the device is serving out iSCSI LUNs across the IP connection. This restriction is a serious flaw.

As part of my work at Storage Fusion, I get to dig into the inner workings of storage arrays in a way most people don’t (either through inclination or time). One interesting anomaly we discovered this week was the variability in capacities of CLARiiON disks. What results from this is that the capacity you expect […]

I spent some time today looking at the release notes for Enginuity code 5874.207.166, which presumably is the one that brings the much lauded Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) into general release on V-Max. Just above the FAST paragraph I found the following:
Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning Space Reclamation reduces capacity requirements and total cost of ownership […]

This is thelast in a four-part series of posts on the Sun Storage 7000 USS storage arrays. Previous posts in this series can be found here:
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – PartI
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – PartII
Review: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System – PartIII
Previous posts have discussed the physical […]