Compellent just introduced their new Storage Center 5
So, as of today 17:00 (German time) Compellent introduced their new Storage Center in version 5. Storage Center is essentially a SAN solution that similar to EMC’s V-Max is based on industry-standard...
View Article“Storage tiering is dying.” But purple unicorns exist.
Chris Mellor over at the Register put an interview online with NetApp CEO Tom Georgens. To quote from the Register piece: He is dismissive of multi-level tiering, saying: “The simple fact of the matter...
View ArticleMy take on the stack wars
As some of you might have read, the stack wars have started. One of the bigger coalitions announced in November 2009 was that between VMware, Cisco and EMC, aptly named VCE. Hitachi Data Systems...
View ArticleMy “Follow, even if it’s not Friday” list
There’s a meme on Twitter that can be witnessed each Friday. It’s called “Follow Friday” and can be found by searching for the #FollowFriday hash tag, or sometimes just simply abbreviated to #FF to...
View ArticleWhat’s new in EMC Clariion CX4 FLARE 30
A little while back, EMC released a new version of it’s CLARiiON Fibre Logic Array Runtime Environment, or in short “FLARE” operating environment. This release brings us to version 04.30 and again has...
View ArticleWhat is VAAI, and how does it add spice to my life as a VMware admin?
EMC EBC CorkI spent some days in Cork, Ireland this week presenting to a customer. Besides the fact that I’m now almost two months in to my new job, and I’m loving every part of it, there is one part...
View ArticleVMware HA demo using vMSC with EMC VPLEX Metro
That’s a mouth full of abbreviations for a title, isn’t it? So, let me give you some background info. VMware introduced something called the vSphere Metro Storage Cluster, and Duncan Epping talks about...
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