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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, storage, LeftHand SAN [Edit Tags]

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, storage, LeftHand SAN [Edit Tags]

The complexity of choice

Editor's note: The last three posts have focused on the storage consolidation for SMB announcement we did last week. We have posts from Carol Kemp, Lee Johns, and Charles Vallhonrat. Here are links to those posts if you want to read today's post...

Published 06-03-2009 2:44 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: consolidation, virtualization, SMB, storage, LeftHand SAN [Edit Tags]

Storage virtualization webcast on TechTarget

By Calvin Zito Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve had a few posts from Edgardo Lopez talking about the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform. Here’s a summary of the posts to date: Network based storage virtualization : Gives...

Published 05-26-2009 11:15 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, SVSP [Edit Tags]

SVSP Use Case #2: Improving Asset Management and Data Mobility with Non-disruptive Data Migration

By Edgardo Lopez In our last blog we discussed the SVSP Use Case "Storage Consolidation & Centralized Management" and how it delivers value through better capacity management, improved utilization and simplified storage management. Recently...

Published 05-22-2009 5:15 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, SVSP [Edit Tags]

StorageWorks EVA wins best hardware at Microsoft Tech Ed 2009!

By Calvin Zito Last week I had heard that the HP StorageWorks EVA was selected as a finalist at Microsoft Tech Ed 2009 for the category of best hardware, networking, or storage. I just learned that the EVA has won! (See this article on IT Windows Pro...

Published 05-14-2009 5:10 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, EVA, storage [Edit Tags]

Optimizing infrastructure with VMware and the EVA

By Calvin Zito In early March, we announced the new EVA6400 and EVA8400 - we talked about that on this blog (see my post titled Storage Virtualization and the new EVA ). The EVA is really a great match for virtual server environments. Here's a video...

Published 05-14-2009 12:24 AM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, solid state storage technology, EVA, storage [Edit Tags]

SVSP use case #1: Consolidation and centralized management

By Edgardo Lopez, Product Marketing Manager Recently, I talked about how the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Services Platform (SVSP) network-based storage virtualization solution forms a solid foundation for an adaptive storage infrastructure that...

Published 05-06-2009 3:50 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: consolidation, virtualization, storage, SVSP [Edit Tags]

But I can't afford a Fibre Channel SAN

By Calvin Zito I just saw a customer comment on an article we have on hp.com. The article is titled The secret to successful virtualization: Unlock server virtualization potential with efficient storage . Here is what the customer comment said, "We...

Published 05-01-2009 3:22 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, storage, LeftHand SAN [Edit Tags]

Network-based storage virtualization

By Edgardo Lopez In these hard economic times, so many articles are already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but few of them actually describe how to design a flexible and adaptive infrastructure that facilitates...

Published 04-28-2009 7:02 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: thin provisioning, virtualization, storage, SVSP [Edit Tags]

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 [Edit Tags]

Learn more about HP LeftHand

By Calvin Zito I wanted to follow-up on John Spiers previous blog post about our HP LeftHand announcement on Monday. I'd like to point you to a few different things around our hp.com web pages to help you learn more about the problems our HP LeftHand...

Published 04-24-2009 2:21 PM by CalvinZ

Filed under: virtualization, iSCSI, storage, LeftHand SAN [Edit Tags]

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 [Edit Tags]

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 [Edit Tags]

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 [Edit Tags]

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StorageWorks EVA wins best hardware at Microsoft Tech Ed 2009!

Optimizing infrastructure with VMware and the EVA

SVSP use case #1: Consolidation and centralized management

But I can't afford a Fibre Channel SAN

Network-based storage virtualization

EVA Simplicity Challenge

Learn more about HP LeftHand

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

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

Storage virtualization and the new EVA