Archive for December, 2010
Thank you — It’s been a great year for storage
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, IT Transformation on Dec 20, 2010 3 Comments »
As 2010 draws to a close, and we are making our final rounds, we recognize that this has been an extraordinary year for storage compared to where we were at the end of 2009. The sharp downturn that occurred in late 2008 and carried through most of 2009 saw a sharp recovery in 2010. Many [...]
A global pool of processors: a second look
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Virtualization on Dec 15, 2010 9 Comments »
I wrote about the need for a global pool of processors in November, and focused on the new requirements for different architectures. This topic is a big one, and deserves another look here.
Redefining scale-up and scale-out
Posted in Storage Software on Dec 13, 2010 2 Comments »
This past year, there have been a number of vendors and analysts who have been touting the virtues of scale-out storage. Scale-out storage is always contrasted with scale-up storage. A typical description of scale-out storage will say that it provides rapid expansion of storage systems through the horizontal addition of storage nodes (servers with cache [...]
Virtual Storage Platform: The First 60 Days
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Hardware on Dec 3, 2010 1 Comment »
It is now just over 60 days since we announced the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) on September 27 in Santa Clara, which was called a “game-changing moment”.
