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Storage virtualization and the new EVA

By Calvin Zito In my first post , I gave an overview of the March 10 announcement we did. In part 2 , I gave a bit more color to the StorageWorks piece of the announcement. Today, I want to talk about the new EVA6400 and EVA8400 that were announced. If...

Published 03-12-2009 7:04 PM by CalvinZ

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

Changing the economics of storage infrastructure with virtualization

By Calvin Zito Yesterday I talked about the announcement that our Technology Solutions Group did and briefly mentioned the part HP StorageWorks had in that announcement. Today, I'll drill down a bit more into the StorageWorks news. The current economic...

Published 03-11-2009 6:30 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: backup, thin provisioning, virtualization, storage management, Solid State Disk, solid state storage technology, EVA, storage

HP's New Solid State Storage Web Page

Hi folks, If you're keeping abreast of the developments in Solid State Storage Technology for PCs, Servers and Storage Arrays, HP has a new web page devoted to the subject. You can find it at: www.hp.com/go/solidstate Take a look today and come back...

Published 10-07-2008 6:35 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: Solid State Disk, solid state storage technology, storage

Enterprise Solid State Technology Today: Hype or Reality (Part 1)

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...

Published 08-26-2008 2:55 PM by jasontreu

Filed under: Solid State Disk, solid state storage technology, 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

IDC suggests SSD not quite baked for the Enterprise

by Jim Hankins Saw this article " Enterprise systems may need redesign to benefit from solid state disks " at SearchStorage.com. This paragraph from the article echos what I said in the Bottom Line on my previous Part 2 post on our position...

Published 07-17-2008 9:32 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: Solid State Disk, solid state storage technology, storage

Solid State Disks – Sorry EMC, Fibre Channel Disks aren’t dead yet! (Part 2)

By Jim Hankins Our view of Solid State Disks (SSDs), borne out by lab tests, is that some of the workloads that use 15K RPM drives today could take advantage of and cost-justify SSDs. Even then, not all 15K RPM drives are expected to be displaced. Rather...

Published 07-10-2008 8:42 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: Solid State Disk, Fibre Channel disk drives, solid state storage technology, storage

Solid State Disks – Sorry EMC, Fibre Channel Disks aren’t dead yet! (Part 1)

By Jim Hankins Recently, EMC and Sun made some high profile announcements on their Solid State Disk (SSD) products, touting SSD's immediate adoption in enterprise server and storage applications. Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC, went so far as...

Published 07-10-2008 8:20 PM by jim hankins

Filed under: Solid State Disk, Fibre Channel disk drives, solid state storage technology, storage

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Storage virtualization and the new EVA

Changing the economics of storage infrastructure with virtualization

HP's New Solid State Storage Web Page

Enterprise Solid State Technology Today: Hype or Reality (Part 1)

Data Placement: Who’s Architecture is Really Broken?

IDC suggests SSD not quite baked for the Enterprise

Solid State Disks – Sorry EMC, Fibre Channel Disks aren’t dead yet! (Part 2)

Solid State Disks – Sorry EMC, Fibre Channel Disks aren’t dead yet! (Part 1)