By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy On the latest StorageMonkeys.com podcast , the hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley had Greg Shultz of StorageIO and Chad Sakac, VP of VMware Technology Alliance at EMC as their guests to talk about the Acadia announcement. In that podcast, around the 34 minute mark, Greg...
By Calvin Zito As I was about to log off last night, I saw a message on Twitter from Steve Duplessie (founder of the Enterprise Strategy Group) that caught my attention. He said that Dave Donatelli from EMC's Storage Division was coming to HP. All I could say was "Wow". Within the next...
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 What a bad day to do an announcement just prior to our HP Technology@Work event in Berlin this week! We had a lot of interesting news that went out today but it won't get the attention it should because of the Oracle announcement today. Here's a link to our online press kit where...
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...
By Lee Johns Yesterday Chuck Hollis of EMC wrote a blog applauding "brave new thinking" in the industry. Interestingly what he was applauding was another vendor entering the blade market pioneered by HP. Over the last few years HP has seen our BladeSystem business grow with quarterly growth...
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...