Tag Archives: NAS

HDS buys BlueArc

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Ray

Yesterday, HDS announced that they had closed on the purchase of BlueArc their NAS supplier for the past 5 years or so.  Many commentators mentioned that this was a logical evolution of their ongoing OEM agreement, how the timing was … 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 CIFS performance – chart of the month

Posted on January 15, 2010 by Ray

Above we reproduce a chart from our latest newsletter StorInttm Dispatch on SPECsfs(R) 2008 benchmark results.  This chart shows the top 10 CIFS throughput benchmark results as of the end of last year.  As observed in the chart Apple’s Xserve … Continue reading →

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BlueArc introduces Mercury

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Ray

Tomorrow, BlueArc will open up a new front in their battle with the rest of the NAS vendors by introducing the Mercury 50 NAS head. This product is slated to address the more mid-range enterprise market that historically shunned the … Continue reading →

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