FAST but late
EMC officially announced FAST (Fully automated Tiered Storage) for their Symmetrix arrays nearly one year ago but you can find first pre-announcements dated nearly two years ago! Yesterday, HDS announced the availability of HDT (Hitachi dynamic tiering) on their shiny new VSP. Months ago, IBM announced the availability easy tiering on their DS8000. Last spring, 3Par (now HP) announced the...
ContinuaDell is becoming a storage one stop shop
Well, I’m back from holiday and my internet connection was almost non-existent there but last week I heard about the last good shot from DELL in the storage world, they are buying one of the best and innovative enterprise storage vendors: 3Par! As I already said in the recent past, Dell’s acquisitions strategy is going very well, they are doing a good job filling the gaps in their...
ContinuaArcheology or Technology?
On friday @plankers sent this Tweet:” 2.5″ 10k disk is as fast as a 3.5″ 15K disk. Did not know that, thanks @Compellent #TechFieldDay“! yes, it sound a little bit strange and it is inaccurate but twitter’s 140 chars limit doesn’t help to fully explain the whole story. Simply put, this result is achieved positioning most accessed data on the outer tracks of...
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