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HDS Buys BlueArc, Any Surprises Here?
Technically here in the northern hemisphere it is still summer, so there is another summer wedding to announce. The other day Hitachi Data Systems (aka HDS) announced that they finally tied the knot buying their Network Attached Storage (NAS) partner BlueArc whom they have been in a OEM premarital arrangement for the last five years ...
2011 Summer Momentus Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) Moment
This is the fourth in a series of posts (others are here, here and here) that I have been doing for over a year now taking a moment now and then to share some of my experiences with using hybrid hard disk drives (HHDD) along side my hard disk drives (HDD) and solid state drives ...
Measuring Windows Performance impact for VDI Planning
Here is a link to a recent guest post that I was invited to do over at The Vitalization Practice (TVP) pertaining to measuring the impact of Windows Boot performance and what that means for planning for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) initiatives. With Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) initiatives adoption being a popular theme associated with ...
People Plus Data are Aging and Living Longer
Lets face it, people and information are living longer and thus there are more of each along with a strong interdependency by both. People living and data being retained longer should not be a surprise, take a step back and look at the bigger picture. with more data being generated, processed, moved and stored for ...
Dell Storage Forum 2011 Revisited
About a month ago I was invited by Dell to make a quick trip down to Orlando to attend the Dell Storage Forum 2011 (e.g. twitter #dellsf11). Given that on Tuesday June 7th Minneapolis was having a heat wave with 100 degree (F) temperatures, it was actually cooler in Orlando. Make no mistake however, there ...
What’s Your Take on Open Virtualization Alliance and VMware?
Have you heard about the open virtualization alliance (OVA), their kernel based virtual machine (KVM) and their diverse membership list? If not, here is a link to the OVA FAQ, also take a moment and read this here that talks about OVA along with some perspectives commentary from others as well as myself. Figure 1: ...
Using Removable Hard Disk Drives (RHDDs)
Removable hard disk drives (RHDD) are a form of removable media which includes magnetic tape that address many common use cases. Usage scenarios include enabling bulk data portability for larger environments or for D2D backup where the media needs to be physically moved offsite for small and mid sized environments. RHDDs include among others those ...
StorageIO Momentus Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) Moments
This is the third in a series of posts that I have done about Hybrid Hard Disk Drives (HHDDs) along with pieces about Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and Solid State Devices (SSDs). Granted the HDD received its AARP card several years ago when it turned 50 and is routinely declared dead (or read here) even ...
Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a Normal Adoption Course?
Here is an article by Drew Robb over at Enterprise Storage Forum about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and its state of adoption. Drews article includes comments and perspectives from myself around where FCoE is going and why it is on a long road and not a sprint for a short temporal technology play (e.g. ...
NetApp Buying LSIs Engenio Storage Business Unit
This has been a busy week as on Monday Western Digital (WD) announced that they were buying the disk drive business from Hitachi Ltd. (e.g. HGST) for about $4.3 billion USD. The deal includes about $3.5B in cash and 25 million WD common shares (e.g. $750M USD) which will give Hitachi Ltd. about ten (10) ...
