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By Ian Selway, Worldwide HP StorageWorks Solution Manager I've just arrived back from London and I'm looking forward to Day 3 at Microsoft TechEd Berlin. Today we've supported Microsoft in their exhibition area, manning a partner kiosk and demonstrating our LeftHand and EVA integrations with...
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By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy This is the third in a series of three podcasts focusing on our HP Converged Infrastructure announcement. In part 1, I spoke with Sr. VP and GM of HP StorageWorks Dave Roberson . In part 2, I talked to the former CEO of IBRIX Milan Shetti and Marketing Director Lee Johns...
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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 Calvin Zito If you don't follow me on Twitter , you may not be aware that we have a blogger event going in on Colorado Springs. We've brought a number of prominent storage and virtualization bloggers and over the next day and a half, have a packed agenda. The topics we'll cover include...
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By Calvin Zito HP Storage Essentials Performance Edition (this is a link to the product page) provides path-aware performance management of your HP storage arrays (EVA and XP) and SANs while delivering a structured approach to resolving and identifying path performance issues. Key to Storage Essentials...
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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 website). Congratulations to the EVA team. My question...
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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 that includes our Senior VP and GM of HP StorageWorks...
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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 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 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 you're already familiar with the EVA and it's...
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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 conditions are affecting everyone but we all...
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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...
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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...
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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...