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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HDS VSP: my point of view

HDS has announced their long awaited evolution of USP arrays: the VSP (or you can call it P9500 in the HP flavored version). As you can imagine there are already a lot of comments out of there from journalists, bloggers (here and here), analysts and, of course, competitors. I don’t want to add another review here because it’s superfluous but I just want to point out some facts: ...

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Apples to Oranges (or XIV to enterprise storage)

A new blogger from IBM is here, I’m very glad to add myself to the long list of bloggers who are welcoming @StorageBuddhist to the blogosphere! All contributes to the blogging community are well accepted but, in a hard fighting arena like this, one of his first posts were a little bit ingenuous (IMHO)… and posts from other bloggers arrived promptly! But let me get a look to the latest...

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