Techno Musings

In doing some browsing recently I ran across Ken Ow-Wing’s blog I ran across this post. He to observes that the V-Max while architected differently is indeed largely a feature oriented copy of the USP-V. I know that EMC hates this point, but hey truth is truth. One of Ken’s extremely interesting [...]

I recently ran across this post on Storagezilla.  Well I have to say after having looked at their approach to file tiering I have to say nice try.  As I’ve talked about in the past I was there when an external Acopia (now a product of F5) reference customer basically stated they would throw out [...]

Recently, my competitors have asserted that V-Max has gotten under both mine and my HDS colleagues skin.  Well last time I checked the only thing under our skin was flesh and blood just like Barry.  I think that what Barry is talking about is the fact that EMC has copied Hitachi on several occasions and [...]

“Hitachi released a storage system called the Universal Storage Platform, USP.  Our customers were happy, they had found a way to improve the performance of their EMC Symmetrix systems: put a USP in front of the Symmetrix and virtualize it!  However EMC did not want to hear about this, and when Hitachi told the world [...]

A recent article about Mr. Tucci points to the creation of a cross archive/content management federated search system for compliance enforcement across the enterprise.  Here’s the excerpt from the article.

Last May we debuted HCAP V2.0, earlier this month we updated HCAP V2.4 out. Our theme, for V2.4, was “being secure out of the box” from an administration perspective. The focus was on Role Based Access Controls, password complexity, linkages to common authentication directories (LDAP and AD), pervasive audit logging of all management [...]