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...

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FAST V2 teleported to the future?

In these hours all EMC people are very happy to use the statements like “teleport VMs” with their shiny new VPlex but the day by day reality is quite different. Yesterday I saw this twitt from @storagezilla: “Sitting in the FLARE 30 session. Unified Managment (CX,NS,RP) with Unisphere. FAST V2. LUN Compression. Finishing beta, available Q3.” Indeed, seems that FASTV2 was...

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