Compellent is on its way to scale out block storage
As you can see here, Compellent has announced a new version of it’s enterprise storage platform: Storage Center 5.4 A brief recap of the announcement On the hardware side there are a lot of news: new Series 40 controllers (now fitted with the powerful nehalem CPUs, bigger caches, more expansion slots), FCoE and 10Gbit iSCSI support, 2,5″ SAS trays. This new hardware is the...
ContinuaVplex, perchè complicarsi la vita?
Lunedì scorso EMC ha presentato il Vplex durante l’EMCWorld. A prima vista, dopo la presentazione e i mirabolanti effetti speciali, ti sembra veramente che questo oggetto cambierà il modo con cui si è abituati a vedere lo storage e che darà il via alle vere private cloud, poi però sono usciti la documentazione ufficiale e un pò di post ed è facile rendersi conto che è solo uno...
ContinuaJust another V-(per)Plex(ed) post
Well, EMC announced V-Plex during their EMCWorld. IMHO, It’s the storage federation seen from the EMC point of view: adding a lot of complexity with little value to screw the customers as much as possible. Seems to me the same old story of the last years: “this is federation V1 (like FAST V1) it isn’t nothing special but it is branded from EMC so it’s cool”, ...
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