By Jack Hughes, Storage Automation Product Manager For what seems like years, the trades have been touting storage automation as the next big thing to improve data center efficiency. No doubt, there is vast potential for automation to help streamline SAN and NAS management. Storage provisioning, back...
By Nimish Shelat, Product Manager for HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management software I wrote in July on the developments the storage software group has been doing. I followed up with how Storage Essentials SRM software can help manage storage in a virtual environment (Link Here). But I realized...
By Nimish Shelat, Product Manager for HP Storage Essentials Storage Resource Management (SRM) software Hi again, I've been thinking about virtualization clouds, specifically as it relates to server-storage visibility. Here're some of my thoughts, would love to hear what you've experienced...
By Nimish Shelat, Product Manager We recently released a new product - HP Storage Essentials Performance Edition (SEPE) software. It's got some great new capabilities in it that I think you'll like, so I'd like to point you to a few different things around our hp.com web. Look for information...
By Calvin Zito HP Storage Essentials Performance Edition (this is a link to the product page) provides path-aware performance management of your HP storage arrays (EVA and XP) and SANs while delivering a structured approach to resolving and identifying path performance issues. Key to Storage Essentials...
By Calvin Zito As I mentioned in my post titled Storage virtualization and the new EVA , the StorageWorks EVA is proving itself to be far easier to manage than competitive traditional disk arrays. Let me give you some of the back story here. Last year, we commissioned an analyst team (The Edison Group...
By Calvin Zito Last year when we announced the EVA4400, we brought some customers and partners to Houston who were not familiar with the management of either the EVA or EMC Clariion CX array. We gave them a list of tasks to complete and then created a video of that . It was one of the most popular videos...
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...
By Craig Simpson EMC's Chuck Hollis recently posted quite a blog stream on storage capacity efficiency. His latest post concluded "it's time to step back a bit from the fray." It is quite a fray. But, my step back to look at the big picture uncovered some different thoughts from Chuck's...
- by Brett Johnson If you are anything like a “typical” storage data center manager, you are facing common challenges. Storage priorities such as disaster recovery planning, virtualization, data retention compliance, data security, and retaining the best people are key on the agenda. However, IT budgets...