Some of you read my post on drive performance, ' How fast are your drives? ,' and have wondered if investing in a 6Gb/s SAS storage infrastructure makes sense for your environment. Traditional SAS systems have a transfer rate of 3Gb/s, so the new HP 6Gb/s SAS drives and Smart Array controllers...
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 Calvin Zito Sonia Mathur, my colleague on the HP ProLiant team, has a post titled "Are 6Gbps SAS drives right for your environment?". Here's a link to her post: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/reality-check-server-insights/archive/2009/04/13/are-6gbps-sas-drives-right-for...
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 Calvin Zito Earlier this week, HP announced new 2.5" small form factor (SFF) 300GB SAS drives. You can read a bit about them in a blog written by my colleague Sonia Mathur on the ProLiant server team. Here's the link to her post: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/reality-check-server...
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...
No, it's not the Norwegian Polar Institute Day or No Pun Intended Day - it's our new product introduction day. NPI at StorageWorks is an internal process to have our products available for customers and channel. We focus on areas like services, internal configuration tools and systems, supply...
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...