Christophe's Corner

It’s a very interesting time in the industry because there are many users of storage going through data center consolidations, moves, and technology refreshes that invariably generate significant disruptions to business as usual. More importantly, these events generate migration projects which are fraught with risk….and cost…and misconceptions.  So, this blog entry is the first in [...]

I was recently chatting with one of my colleagues, and we got around to discussing midrange storage and XIV. After a few minutes of healthy banter, we quickly concluded that the XIV definitely has some product limitations customers need to be aware of.

With its V-Max announcement a while back and its recent earnings call, EMC is making noise about so-called federated storage, scale out architecture… and selling futures in a big way. Like any marketing term, federated storage has been heavy on implication and light on definition. Some of us believe, in fact, that federated storage is [...]