Browse by Tags

FCoE...it's almost time to get moving!

by Sean Fitzpatrick, StorageWorks Storage Platforms Business Development Over the past few months, we've all witnessed positive milestones for FCoE...but...is it ready? This past June the Fibre Channel Standards T11.3 BB-5 (back bone) working group...

Published 07-28-2009 10:48 PM by Sean Fitz

Filed under: standard, Fibre Channel disk drives, SAN, fibre channel, FCoE, storage

Not your grandfather’s NAS…

By Dirk Kunselman, Product Manager If I ask you to tell me the first thing that comes to mind when I mention NAS, you might reference high-end (and expensive) file serving appliances. Or you might mention consumer-class devices that are becoming more...

Published 06-08-2009 10:30 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: NAS, SAN, SMB, iSCSI, storage

Why isn't all storage in a SAN?

By Charles Vallhonrat Despite many years of strong growth in storage migrating to SANs, we still live in a world where a huge amount of storage is still directly attached to servers. Why have we not seen all storage move external for any environment with...

Published 06-01-2009 4:09 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: SAN, SAS, SMB, direct attached storage, storage

Is the SAN dead?

By Lee Johns Is the SAN Dead? Well what do you know. A well respected analyst has had the courage to write a paper entitled "Do you really need a SAN anymore?". In his paper Andrew Reichman of Forrester postulates that the promise of the SAN...

Published 12-10-2008 10:08 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: SAN, SAS, iSCSI, storage

HP BladeSystem and StorageWorks Synergy

By Lee Johns I often get asked why HP BladeSystem and StorageWorks are such a compelling combination. There are multiple reasons and it starts with the cost of connecting to existing fibre channel storage which can be reduced by up to 50% with the reductions...

Published 11-17-2008 6:26 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: storage for blades, SAN, SAS, SMB, direct attached storage, iSCSI, EVA, storage, LeftHand SAN

More on SPC-2

Last month we announced a world record SPC-2 number by the XP24000. At the same time we extended yet another challenge to EMC to join the rest of the world in publishing benchmarks. They continue to decline the offer, arguing “representativeness” . I...

Published 10-02-2008 7:47 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: backup, consolidation, thin provisioning, Fibre Channel disk drives, SAN, EMC, fibre channel, HDD, storage

Today's LeftHand Networks Announcement

Wow - it's been a busy week at StorageWorks and Lee still can't post his own blog so I'll post this for him on today's news that we have signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, Inc. . Here is Lee's post: As the...

Published 10-01-2008 3:18 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: thin provisioning, SAN, iSCSI, Oracle, storage, LeftHand SAN

EMC, We Challenge You!

EMC, we're once again throwing down the gauntlet. Today the XP24000 put up the highest SPC-2 benchmark result in the world. The top spot for such demanding workloads as video streaming goes to the XP. Once again, your DMX is a no show. And once again...

Published 09-08-2008 2:44 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: consolidation, Fibre Channel disk drives, SAN, EMC, fibre channel, HDD, storage

Top Ten Reasons Why DAS Will Grow!

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...

Published 08-26-2008 6:17 PM by jasontreu

Filed under: SAN, SAS, SMB, fibre channel, direct attached storage, iSCSI, storage

Data Placement: Who’s Architecture is Really Broken?

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...

Published 08-07-2008 10:17 PM by Anonymous

Filed under: virtualization, storage management, Solid State Disk, SAN, solid state storage technology

Storage Just got SASsy! VMware set free of the SAN.

By Lee Johns, director of marketing, StorageWorks Entry Storage and Storage Blades, HP Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Does not sound very exciting really does it? Many of you will know SAS as a class of disk drives found in servers and arrays but how many...

Published 07-22-2008 2:24 AM by jasontreu

Filed under: virtualization, storage management, storage blades, SAN, SAS, EMC, direct attached storage

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Useful Links

HP Blog roll