Back in early March, I talked about our storage virtualization announcement and pointed you to a video we did on the EVA. Well, I think I finally figured out how to embedded video in the blog (at least from YouTube), so I wanted to mention it it again and embedded the video. But first, here's a bit...
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 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...
EMC, in a recent blog on array capacity efficiency, admittedly included some inaccuracies about the EVA. They've said they'll rerun their EVA tests and expect more favorable results. Good enough on that point. But they continue to think that EVA users wanting to run multiple applications are...
By Lee Johns, director of marketing, StorageWorks Entry Storage and Storage Blades, HP Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). Does not sound very exciting really does it? Many of you will know SAS as a class of disk drives found in servers and arrays but how many have ever though of using SAS as an interconnect...