By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy In my last post , I included a couple of summary videos from our recent HP StorageWorks Tech Day. The hands-on lab really stirred up a few folks over at NetApp. The week after our Tech Day, they did a WebEx session to try to address some of the comments made by the bloggers...
By Karl Dohm, Storage Architect Welcome back to the next in a series of posts where we take a closer look at NetApp and its FAS series of storage arrays. The discussion topic today is Microsoft's Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) and its tie to FAS throughput. The FAS has some controversial...
By Jim Haberkorn I had hoped that my last post in regards to NetApp performance claims would end gracefully, as a courageous NetApp employee has apparently now agreed to work with us to find out what we may be doing wrong, if anything, to be getting such poor performance out of our NetApp filer. FYI...
By Jim Haberkorn Before I begin, I don't know how other readers react to it, but whenever I see someone get frustrated and lose their temper on a blog, it's usually because deep inside they know they are losing. Maybe that's not how it is portrayed in movies and books, but in real life, that's...
By Jim Haberkorn We at HP like to test competitor arrays and see if we can match their published results. In our internal testing, only the NetApp results are so out of whack that we are left scratching our heads over what the heck they did to achieve them. So for NetApp, we have published our results...
By Calvin Zito So let me catch you up on what's happened here. We posted a blog recently talking about our HP Virtualization Bundles - bundles that include servers, storage, virtualization software, networking - essentially to make it very easy for midsize customers who are implementing virtual server...
By Calvin Zito Alex McDonald, who I think is a competitive analyst over at NetApp, has been trying his best to make our HP LeftHand solutions look bad compared to his products. It's gone back and forth with lots of comments and posts on both this blog and Alex's. This has me thinking about the...