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What will EVA customers benefit from new NetApp program be? Zip! Zilch

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy In my last post , I included a couple of summary videos from our recent HP StorageWorks Tech Day. The hands-on lab really stirred up a few folks over at NetApp. The week after our Tech Day, they did a WebEx session to try...

Published 11-02-2009 3:51 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, EVA, storage, SVSP

Understanding FAS ESRP Results

By Karl Dohm, Storage Architect Welcome back to the next in a series of posts where we take a closer look at NetApp and its FAS series of storage arrays. The discussion topic today is Microsoft's Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) and its tie...

Published 09-26-2009 4:59 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage, WAFL

Spock says: It is illogical to take offense

By Jim Haberkorn I had hoped that my last post in regards to NetApp performance claims would end gracefully, as a courageous NetApp employee has apparently now agreed to work with us to find out what we may be doing wrong, if anything, to be getting such...

Published 07-29-2009 3:15 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage, WAFL

Why NetApp Gets Blogged

By Jim Haberkorn Before I begin, I don't know how other readers react to it, but whenever I see someone get frustrated and lose their temper on a blog, it's usually because deep inside they know they are losing. Maybe that's not how it is...

Published 07-16-2009 9:46 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage

Are NetApp performance claims logical?

By Jim Haberkorn We at HP like to test competitor arrays and see if we can match their published results. In our internal testing, only the NetApp results are so out of whack that we are left scratching our heads over what the heck they did to achieve...

Published 07-14-2009 4:31 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage

Box score for NetApp capacity calculator

By Calvin Zito So let me catch you up on what's happened here. We posted a blog recently talking about our HP Virtualization Bundles - bundles that include servers, storage, virtualization software, networking - essentially to make it very easy for...

Published 07-07-2009 9:34 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage, LeftHand SAN

Blog wars and cat fights - do you care?

By Calvin Zito Alex McDonald, who I think is a competitive analyst over at NetApp, has been trying his best to make our HP LeftHand solutions look bad compared to his products. It's gone back and forth with lots of comments and posts on both this...

Published 07-02-2009 6:07 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage

HP LeftHand capacity

By Jasen Baker, Storage Architect I once heard that in communicating your opinion or differences, you should not use personal phrases, such as "you always", "you never", "every time", etc. These make broad, sweeping assumptions...

Published 06-30-2009 9:37 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, storage, LeftHand SAN

Making virtualization easy

By John Spiers (Former CTO and a founder of LeftHand Networks, now working for HP StorageWorks) If you haven't taken a look at the new HP virtualization bundles , you definitely should. The virtualization bundles provide an end-to-end solution that...

Published 06-22-2009 3:24 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, storage, LeftHand SAN

NetApp continues to stretch the truth in their press releases

By Calvin Zito Several weeks ago, I had written about NetApp claiming to win the CRN Channel Champion Award in the Network Storage Category. The part they kind of ignored was they did not win the overall award, HP StorageWorks did. What they won was the...

Published 04-30-2009 4:05 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage

EVA Simplicity Challenge

Back in early March, I talked about our storage virtualization announcement and pointed you to a video we did on the EVA. Well, I think I finally figured out how to embedded video in the blog (at least from YouTube), so I wanted to mention it it again...

Published 04-24-2009 10:05 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, NetApp, EMC, EVA, storage

Shame on NetApp!

By Calvin Zito NetApp is taking a piece of truth and misrepresenting it in a press release. On March 11 th , NetApp isused a press release with the following headline. " NetApp Named 2009 CRN Channel Champion ". Yes that is true; they did receive...

Published 03-16-2009 4:41 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, storage

Come on - is the EVA really that easy to manage?

By Calvin Zito As I mentioned in my post titled Storage virtualization and the new EVA , the StorageWorks EVA is proving itself to be far easier to manage than competitive traditional disk arrays. Let me give you some of the back story here. Last year...

Published 03-13-2009 8:31 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage management, NetApp, EMC, EVA, storage

Must see TV: EVA, EMC, and NetApp go head to head

By Calvin Zito Last year when we announced the EVA4400, we brought some customers and partners to Houston who were not familiar with the management of either the EVA or EMC Clariion CX array. We gave them a list of tasks to complete and then created a...

Published 03-13-2009 4:03 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage management, NetApp, EMC, EVA, storage

Capacity discussion follow-up

By Karl Dohm Since Jim Haberkorn is off on vacation, I'd like to provide some continuity and add a few thoughts on the capacity discussion between Jim and Alex McDonald. See Jims's post presenting the case for NetApp capacity utilization problems...

Published 12-19-2008 1:43 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NetApp, EVA, storage

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What will EVA customers benefit from new NetApp program be? Zip! Zilch

Understanding FAS ESRP Results

Spock says: It is illogical to take offense

Why NetApp Gets Blogged

Are NetApp performance claims logical?

Box score for NetApp capacity calculator

Blog wars and cat fights - do you care?

HP LeftHand capacity

Making virtualization easy

NetApp continues to stretch the truth in their press releases

EVA Simplicity Challenge

Shame on NetApp!

Come on - is the EVA really that easy to manage?

Must see TV: EVA, EMC, and NetApp go head to head

Capacity discussion follow-up