A not so successful case and the power of marketing
These days I am competing with IBM XIV in a business negotiation. I’m gathering as much information as possible to give the customer a document he could find immediately useful and then I’ll publish it on this blog. During my research I came across this “success case” (just one out of the 11 published): the customer says he bought a XIV (79 TB usable) to feed a 7TB ...
ContinuaToo much hype and money for nothing = FAST V1
EMC released FAST (Fully automated tiered storage) V1 and bloggers, twitters, analysts are making a lot of noise on something technically poor feature but well driven by marketing! I agree with people saying that FAST is a foundation technology for the future strategy of storage management and not only a product and we will see the real capabilities with the V2… (IMHO, V1 is only another...
ContinuaAutomated tiered storage: policy and time
Data Progression is the automated storage implementation by Compellent, nowdays we are speaking a lot about these features but i think there is a little bit of confusion on Policy based tiering and Time based tiering. Automated storage tiering is the capability of a storage system to move blocks of data between different tiers of disks and raid levels, in function of their access frequency and...
ContinuaSubscription Options
