Is V-Max the next InVista (Hasta La Vista Tigon)?
Looking at recent threads, there is something I’d like to clarify concerning some less than accurate information regarding our ability to be in compliance with constant replication requirements: our...
View ArticleBestest in class: Modular
What about increasing your cost savings, automating performance optimization and making data storage easier to provision? Good news today, since Hitachi Data Systems strikes again with great updates...
View ArticleDisruptive thinking…
With its V-Max announcement a while back and its recent earnings call, EMC is making noise about so-called federated storage, scale out architecture… and selling futures in a big way. Like any...
View ArticleEx-IV?
I was recently chatting with one of my colleagues, and we got around to discussing midrange storage and XIV. After a few minutes of healthy banter, we quickly concluded that the XIV definitely has some...
View ArticleMigration – what they don’t tell you
It’s a very interesting time in the industry because there are many users of storage going through data center consolidations, moves, and technology refreshes that invariably generate significant...
View ArticleNot-so-FAST, indeed
When EMC announced V-Max in the spring of 2009, it included statements of intent to deliver fully automated storage tiering, otherwise known as FAST. Many years ago, when EMC was innovating in the...
View ArticleDoes Santa like Tiered Storage Automation from HDS?
There’s been a lot of discussion around the automation of storage tiers recently, and I wanted to take a few minutes to focus on what HDS has been doing for many years in this space. Hu Yoshida...
View ArticleReliability Matters
I have shared some data from TechValidate in the past that pointed at many storage characteristics and benefits that our systems make possible. Two of the main benefits are reliability and...
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A users’ perspective on enterprise-level cloud storage
I was in Orlando last week attending the Gartner ITxpo event. HDS had a booth there, and we were grateful to have a customer, Jeffrey Papen from Peak Web Hosting, join us and speak at the event. In...
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EMC announcements: Form over substance
There has been a flurry of posts recently in the blogosphere comparing EMC’s VMAX and Hitachi’s VSP. Lots of details and perspectives have been provided by both camps. These loaded architectural...
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