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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...
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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 to FAS throughput. The FAS has some controversial...
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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 poor performance out of our NetApp filer. FYI...
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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 portrayed in movies and books, but in real life, that's...
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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 them. So for NetApp, we have published our results...
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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 midsize customers who are implementing virtual server...
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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 blog and Alex's. This has me thinking about the...
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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 which seldom reflect the truth, especially...
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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 delivers application high availability without external...
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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 Financial Performance trophy, not the overall Channel...
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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...
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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 a reward from CRN in the Network Storage Category...
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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...
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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...
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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...