By Tilman Walker, HP Enterprise Storage Consultant Imagine a customer that is the world leader in their market (no specifics, but they are in the environmental friendly energy business). The customer environment is very (!) dynamic - and this is mostly due to their fast business growth. In their environment...
By Edgardo Lopez In these hard economic times, so many articles are already out there about how to bring down the costs of storage infrastructures, but few of them actually describe how to design a flexible and adaptive infrastructure that facilitates these potential savings and streamline operations...
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...
Last month we announced a world record SPC-2 number by the XP24000. At the same time we extended yet another challenge to EMC to join the rest of the world in publishing benchmarks. They continue to decline the offer, arguing “representativeness” . I thought I’d clear up the “representativeness” question...
Wow - it's been a busy week at StorageWorks and Lee still can't post his own blog so I'll post this for him on today's news that we have signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, Inc. . Here is Lee's post: As the dust settles on the announcement of the HP & Oracle...
- by Craig Simpson Recently a competitor, EMC, announced that they are one of the last major block storage vendors to join the Thin Provisioning party. That’s not the way they said it, but if you’re keeping score that’s the way it was. Amazingly enough EMC is often considered a leader in the storage...