As news hit the wire this afternoon, about the latest move by Dave Donatelli (President EMC Storage Division) from EMC to HP. As Dave’s new job, he will report to Ann Livermore at HP and will handle all Server, Storage and Networking business also known as ESS (Enterprise Storage & Server) Division, worth about US 20B, more than his current responsibilities at EMC, in terms of Dollars.
The Technical Case: Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on the technical case on why analysis of your storage platforms is important and how it might help you discover inconsistencies in storage environments.
I had written a blog post about expectations with EMC DMX next generation technology, and did come quite close to predicting what the new set of architecture would look like, including Directors, Cache, IOPS, Drives types, Release dates, Cost offerings, GA enginuity code, Scalable Architectures, Controller Consolidation to include local memory, processor speed, EFD sizes, SMC console and associated Symapi, SMC friendless (templates, wizards), new conceptual design of mirror positions, virtual provisioning, power savings, Ethernet based connectivity to V-Max Service Processor, VMware Native Integration, Support for various RAID types that would enhance the product, policy based work flow automation, some support for FCOE in the future and a radical design change.
Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some facts about what causes and what are inconsistencies in storage environments.
Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some facts about data that sits in Storage Environments.
Continuing the blog posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on some fundamental questions around Storage Environments.
The IT Budgets of 2009: Continuing my posts on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA) and Storage Economics, this one focuses on the facts of IT – Storage Budgets of 2009.
Continuing the series blog post on Storage Resource Analysis (SRA), this post focuses on the “IT – Storage World of 2009†and the requirements / importance of it around today’s overall Storage Strategy.
A series post related on importance of storage economics for your IT/Storage Environments.
In my previous posts on EMC Symmetrix 3, 5, 8 Series and EMCSymmetrix DMX, DMX-2 Series we discussed some important components comprised in these systems. In this post we will discuss components of EMC Symmetrix DMX-4.
