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 to address some of the comments made by the bloggers...
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 and embedded the video. But first, here's a bit...
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, we commissioned an analyst team (The Edison Group...
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 video of that . It was one of the most popular videos...
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 and Alex's post on why Jim's post isn't...
By Karl Dohm, HP Storage Architect To recap, in this series of posts we are exploring some of the limitations of WAFL and specifically how those limitations manifest themselves to an average user of the FAS. For my previous posts see Part1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 . I had made the assertion in the original...
By Karl Dohm, HP Storage Architect Sorry for the delay, I'm just finally getting back to this making the third installment on this thread. For the previous posts see threads Making Sense of WAFL and Making Sense of WAFL Part 2 . In this series it we are trying to seek technical truths in the highly...
By Jim Haberkorn Never let it be said that NetApp doesn't learn from its competitors. Back in 2006 NetApp published a white paper titled, " Total Cost Comparison: IT Decision-Maker Perspectives on EMC®, HP®, and NetApp® Storage Solutions in Enterprise Database Environments" whose purpose...