Tag Archives: EMC

Latest SPECsfs2008 results, over 1 million NFS ops/sec – chart-of-the-month

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ray

[We are still catching up on our charts for the past quarter but this one brings us up to date through last month] There’s just something about a million SPECsfs2008(r) NFS throughput operations per second that kind of excites me (weird, … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 3 …

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Ray

Sometime this week EMC announced a new generation of Isilon NearLine storage which now includes HGST 3TB SATA disk drives.  With the new capacity the multi-node (144) Isilon cluster using the 108NL nodes can support 15PB of file data in … Continue reading →

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EMCWorld day 2

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Ray

Day 2 saw releases for new VMAX  and VPLEX capabilities hinted at yesterday in Joe’s keynote. Namely, VMAX announcements VMAX now supports Native FCoE with 10GbE support now VMAX supports directly FCoE, 10GbE iSCSI and SRDF Enhanced Federated Live Migration … Continue reading →

Posted in Block Storage, Data, data access, Data availability, Data integrity, data logistics, Data search, Ethernet, FCoE, Networking, Storage, Storage architecture, Storage availability, Storage Features | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

VMware disaster recovery

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Ray

I did an article awhile ago for TechTarget on Virtual (machine) Disaster Recovery and discussed what was then the latest version of VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) v1.0 and some of it’s capabilities. Well its been a couple of years … Continue reading →

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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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Real-time data analytics from customer interactions

Posted on January 20, 2011 by Ray

At a recent EMC product launch in New York, there was a customer question and answer session for industry analysts with four of EMC’s leading edge customers. One customer, Marco Pacelli, was the CEO of ClickFox, a company providing real-time data … Continue reading →

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EMC Data Domain products enter the archive market

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Ray

In another assault on the tape market, EMC announced today a new Data Domain 860 Archiver appliance. This new system supports both short-term and long-term retention of backup data. This attacks one of the last bastions of significant tape use … Continue reading →

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Data compression lives on

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Ray

Last week NetApp announced the availability of data compression on many of their unified storage platforms, which includes block and file storage.  Earlier this year EMC announced data compression for LUNs on CLARiion and Celerra.  I must commend both of … Continue reading →

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