By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy On today's podcast, we talk about the HP Total Care announcement with HP StorageWorks Marketing Manager Chris McCall. The announcement today has three StorageWorks components: HP LeftHand P4000 SAN Solutions - new application integrated snapshots that integrates the...
By Calvin Zito I have a ton of things on my list to blog about in the next few days as there's still much to say about the HP Tech Day. For this post, I'm going to take a slight diversion to share with you a podcast and guest blog from Microsoft's Mark Pendergast. On Tuesday morning, we announced...
By Mike Moroze, HP LeftHand Usability Corner I sat down with Chris McCall the manager of product marketing in our Unified Storage Division (a part of HP's StorageWorks Division) to discuss how small and medium sized companies are looking at virtualization. What we're seeing is that more and more...
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...
Editor's note: The last three posts have focused on the storage consolidation for SMB announcement we did last week. We have posts from Carol Kemp, Lee Johns, and Charles Vallhonrat. Here are links to those posts if you want to read today's post in context: New Storage Consolidation Solutions...
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 Carol Kemp In case you missed it, HP came out with several new products and solutions designed for SMBs to help them survive and thrive during this tough economy. To read the full press release, click here . Headlining the announcement are new storage consolidation solutions designed to help SMBs...
By Calvin Zito My good friend Sal Simili is a jack of all trades at Compass Public Charter School in Meridian, Idaho just outside of Boise. Sal has been the IT manager (initially as a volunteered when the school was first starting) and also teaches a technology class at Compass. He was an early adopter...
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...
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...