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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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By Calvin Zito One thing I wanted to mention last week and I forgot was the results of some performance testing our partner Fusion-io and HP did. We were able to achieve over 1 million IOPS in a single HP ProLiant Server running four Quad-Core processors and with Fusion-io solid state storage technology...
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By Calvin Zito I always enjoy a good laugh and thought I'd have to share this video clip I found yesterday. But first you need the back story. If you've read this blog or other storage vendor blogs, you know that many have had issues with the hype EMC was trying to create around solid state drives...
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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 Calvin Zito In my previous post , I talked a little bit about our New Product Introduction (NPI) process and gave some pointers to a number of things that came from the latest NPI. Here are a few more things to highlight: We announced the HP StorageWorks SAN Virtualization Platform a couple of weeks...
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The topic of solid state technology has been oft covered here and by others in the storage industry. I'd like to point out a few things from the last few days for your consideration and reading pleasure: Jieming Zhu works for the HP StorageWorks office of the CTO. He was at Storage Networking World...
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"Storagezilla" (aka Mark Twomey) is one of the many EMC bloggers and the other day he wrote an entry on his blog questioning where HP is with solid state technology, accusing HP of FUD. I'm guessing either EMC has talking points or he was reading Chuck Hollis' recent comments because...
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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...
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By Jieming Zhu I will continue on with part 2 now. Hope you enjoy and please share your thoughts! Claim #3: Because SSD does not use any mechanical moving parts, it's inherently more reliable than HDDs. This is probably the biggest misnomer surrounding around SSD's enterprise adoption. Quite...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...