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...
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...
Hi folks, If you're keeping abreast of the developments in Solid State Storage Technology for PCs, Servers and Storage Arrays, HP has a new web page devoted to the subject. You can find it at: www.hp.com/go/solidstate Take a look today and come back on a regular basis for more updates. Regards, Jim...
By Jieming Zhu Almost every emerging technology suffers from the reality and expectation mismatch as a consequence of over-hyping. In the enterprise storage industry, it tends to be further amplified many times. Nobody should treat data, the life blood of business, lightly. Therefore, the more fundamental...
by Jim Hankins Saw this article " Enterprise systems may need redesign to benefit from solid state disks " at SearchStorage.com. This paragraph from the article echos what I said in the Bottom Line on my previous Part 2 post on our position on SSD: "...All of this suggests SSDs are at...
By Jim Hankins Our view of Solid State Disks (SSDs), borne out by lab tests, is that some of the workloads that use 15K RPM drives today could take advantage of and cost-justify SSDs. Even then, not all 15K RPM drives are expected to be displaced. Rather, we expect SSD to be used as a premium performance...
By Jim Hankins Recently, EMC and Sun made some high profile announcements on their Solid State Disk (SSD) products, touting SSD's immediate adoption in enterprise server and storage applications. Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC, went so far as to predict that high-end flash drives will replace...