By Ian Selway, WW Solution Marketing Manager So as day 5 is really only a short day, I’ve waited to send my day 4 comments and I’m combining the summary of days 4 and 5 here at TechEd Berlin. Overnight the Wednesday to the Thursday, our stand designers added a whole bunch of balloons to celebrate...
by Sean Fitzpatrick, StorageWorks Storage Platforms Business Development Over the past few months, we've all witnessed positive milestones for FCoE...but...is it ready? This past June the Fibre Channel Standards T11.3 BB-5 (back bone) working group finalized defining the spec (or ratified) and voted...
By Dirk Kunselman, Product Manager If I ask you to tell me the first thing that comes to mind when I mention NAS, you might reference high-end (and expensive) file serving appliances. Or you might mention consumer-class devices that are becoming more prevalent at your local electronics retailer. Or you...
By Charles Vallhonrat Despite many years of strong growth in storage migrating to SANs, we still live in a world where a huge amount of storage is still directly attached to servers. Why have we not seen all storage move external for any environment with multiple servers? Surely the SAN offers lower...
By Lee Johns Is the SAN Dead? Well what do you know. A well respected analyst has had the courage to write a paper entitled "Do you really need a SAN anymore?". In his paper Andrew Reichman of Forrester postulates that the promise of the SAN has not been realised and that application centric...
By Lee Johns I often get asked why HP BladeSystem and StorageWorks are such a compelling combination. There are multiple reasons and it starts with the cost of connecting to existing fibre channel storage which can be reduced by up to 50% with the reductions in cables, single failure points and administration...
Last month we announced a world record SPC-2 number by the XP24000. At the same time we extended yet another challenge to EMC to join the rest of the world in publishing benchmarks. They continue to decline the offer, arguing “representativeness” . I thought I’d clear up the “representativeness” question...
Wow - it's been a busy week at StorageWorks and Lee still can't post his own blog so I'll post this for him on today's news that we have signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, Inc. . Here is Lee's post: As the dust settles on the announcement of the HP & Oracle...
EMC, we're once again throwing down the gauntlet. Today the XP24000 put up the highest SPC-2 benchmark result in the world. The top spot for such demanding workloads as video streaming goes to the XP. Once again, your DMX is a no show. And once again we challenge you, this time to put up an SPC-2...
By Lee Johns For a number of years now the relentless growth of SANs has overshadowed the Direct Attached Storage market (DAS). Ind e ed market studies have shown that while still a large market, DAS is shrinking. However , recent advances in SAS drives and SAS connectivity, along with market shifts...