Tag Archives: Dell

Services and products, a match made in heaven

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ray

In all the hoopla about company’s increasing services revenues what seems to be missing is that hardware and software sales automatically drive lots of services revenues. A recent Wikibon post by Doug Chandler (see Can cloud pull services and technology … Continue reading →

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One platform to rule them all – Compellent&EqualLogic&Exanet from Dell

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Ray

Dell and Compellent may be a great match because Compellent uses commodity hardware combined with specialized software to create their storage subsystem. If there’s any company out there that can take advantage of commodity hardware it’s probably Dell. (Of course … Continue reading →

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Latest ESRPv3 (Exchange 2010) results analysis for 1K-to-5Kmailboxes – chart of the month

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Ray

The chart is from SCI’s October newsletter/performance dispatch on Exchange 2010 Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP v3.0) and shows the mailbox database access latencies for read, write and log write.  For this report we are covering solutions supporting from 1001 up … Continue reading →

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Enterprise data storage defined and why 3PAR?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Ray

Recent press reports about a bidding war for 3PAR bring into focus the expanding need for enterprise class data storage subsystems.  What exactly is enterprise storage? Defining enterprise storage is frought with problems but I will take a shot.  Enterprise … Continue reading →

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Primary storage compression can work

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Ray

Since IBM’s announced their intent to purchase StorWize there has been much discussion on whether primary storage data compression can be made to work.  As far as I know StorWize only offered primary storage compression for file data but there is nothing … Continue reading →

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