Archive for January, 2011
VSP wins Prestigious iF Product Design Award
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Hardware, Storage Software, Virtualization on Jan 31, 2011 7 Comments »
Floor space, power, and cooling – Setting records
Posted in Midrange Solutions, Sustainability, Virtualization on Jan 24, 2011 3 Comments »
Gartner published a report last November on storage predictions for 2011. In that report, they said that the need to reduce power and capacity costs will become critical. They made the statement that power, cooling, and floor space will be a limiting factor for growth.
FAST VP Finally Appears
Posted in Tech Talk on Jan 18, 2011 No Comments »
Last night I returned to the Hanoi Hilton after a late dinner to a ton of EMC announcements. Since I have an early flight to Singapore this morning I was only able to scan the press releases. FAST VP was in one of them. By EMC’s count it was one of over 40 new products [...]
Where is FAST VP?
Posted in Tech Talk on Jan 17, 2011 9 Comments »
On December 21, 2010, last month Nigel Poulton posted “VMAX Comes of Age” on his Technical Deep Dive blog. It was a very interesting article that claimed that EMC released their long anticipated sub LUN level tiering version of FAST, which was identified as FAST VP, previously known as FAST 2. Nigel claims that it [...]
Comments on a global pool of processors
Posted in Best Practices on Jan 7, 2011 3 Comments »
Since my last post on the global pool of processors in the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform (VSP), there has been a some discussion of this by Nigel Poulton, Scott Lowe, and myself on Scott Lowe’s blog. The Storage Anarchist also threw in a comment. I thought I might summarize that discussion for my blog readers.
Looking back on most popular posts of 2010
Posted in IT Transformation, Storage Software, Tech Talk, Virtualization on Jan 5, 2011 No Comments »
The first week of any new year brings great energy and ambition for the year ahead. While thinking about goals and priorities for the new year, I thought it would be interesting to look back on the most popular blog posts of 2010 based upon both traffic and comments.
A place for technology blogs in 2011
Posted in Enterprise Solutions, Storage Software, Virtualization on Jan 4, 2011 No Comments »
It’s the first work week of 2011. The stock market is up and technology stocks are leading the way with the likes of Apple and HP. I believe this year we will see a focus on new technology as we begin to recover from the 2008/2009 downturn, and storage is no exception. We saw the [...]
