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By Craig Simpson EMC's Chuck Hollis recently posted quite a blog stream on storage capacity efficiency. His latest post concluded "it's time to step back a bit from the fray." It is quite a fray. But, my step back to look at the big
EMC, in a recent blog on array capacity efficiency, admittedly included some inaccuracies about the EVA. They've said they'll rerun their EVA tests and expect more favorable results. Good enough on that point. But they continue to think that EVA
By Warren Smith, HP StorageWorks In an all too familiar world, we are compelled to report that the information in Chuck's blog on capacity efficiency is a distortion as far as the EVA is concerned. Read Chuck's blog post That this is a distortion
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By Jieming Zhu I will continue on with part 2 now. Hope you enjoy and please share your thoughts! Claim #3: Because SSD does not use any mechanical moving parts, it's inherently more reliable than HDDs. This is probably the biggest misnomer surrounding
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By Lee Johns For a number of years now the relentless growth of SANs has overshadowed the Direct Attached Storage market (DAS). Ind e ed market studies have shown that while still a large market, DAS is shrinking. However , recent advances in SAS drives
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By Jieming Zhu Almost every emerging technology suffers from the reality and expectation mismatch as a consequence of over-hyping. In the enterprise storage industry, it tends to be further amplified many times. Nobody should treat data, the life blood
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When there are no more natural disasters! When electricity is free! When hardware never fails! When software is bug-free! When people no longer make mistakes! When there are no computer viruses or other malicious code! When all people are honest! When
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Filed under: tape, DDS/DAT, deduplication, backup, Virtual Library System, virtual tape, disk-based backup, green storage, dedup, D2D Backup Systems, DAT320, DAT, DAT160
In case you missed it, HP announced our fiscal Q3 results yesterday. You can learn the details by looking at the official press release , read the transcript of the earnings call , or watching a replay of the earnings call . Here are a few of the storage
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Last November, the CEO of EMC gave a glimpse of products code named Hulk and Maui. He told the EMC Innovation Day audience that his company would deliver these to the market by May. Then came EMC World in late May. There was little to no public mention
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By Warren Smith, StorageWorks Competitive Intelligence Manager "Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal." That's an amusing quote by Demetri Martin, an American comedian. But it could be the motto of NetApp. Last week, NetApp
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I just read a blog where Chuck Hollis ( http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2008/07/the-great-data.html ) of EMC launched an attack on storage virtualization. Called us all “spindle randomizers.” He based this attack on the idea that you can’t mange
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The Real Story on tape storage
-by Sean Fitzpatrick Now that we are on the roller coaster of hype, what is the next cycle for FCoE? I would argue that we are still in the first cycle of its adoption. If you’re a student of Geoffrey Moore’s Technology-Adoption Life Cycle model; the
OK… that may be a little harsh. How about don’t take my word for it… listen to what a respected industry publication had to say. The good folks over at Network World recently completed a review of a wide range of iSCSI storage devices and in the process
By Jim Hankins Customer's often ask us what's the role of tape today and where is it going in the future? I was alerted to an excellent blog post titled "Tape - Is its Time Up?" by Jay Wallace at Sun and in it is an excellent white paper
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