Analysis
The FCOE Hustle
Cisco and QLogic would be very happy if you started evaluating Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCOE) now, ready for a 2009 implementation. Why this sudden FCOE hustle and bustle? And what does it mean for other suppliers?[more...]
Tunnelling ahead and then the land of giants
Hitachi GST will tunnel ahead to increase hard drive capacity and then enter the land of giants with GMR heads in thre or four years' time.[more...]
Confusing Hitachi GST areal density reports
Hitachi GST says it can produce a hard drive with 250 percent more data by 2010/11 through recording head, media and error code improvements. This is only half the capacity it was reportedly telling us it could achieve less than a month ago. [more...]
Green cash giveaway
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) , a California energy-supply company, will give customers rebates if they buy more energy-efficient IT kit, including storage gear. It says paying customers to use green kit saves it cash it would have to build on new electrity generating plant.[more...]
XIV - Storage Presentation
The second part of our XIV tour outlines how the XIV's storage capacity is organized, presented, managed and used. It follows on from the initial XIV system introduction here.[more...]
XIV - The Coming Release 2
This is the third part of the Blocks & Files tour around the XIV product. Part one is an introduction to the basic architecture and function of the current Release 1 system. Part two explains how XIV storage capacity is organized, presented, used and managed. This part examines the coming Release 2 XIV Storage System and then looks at overall XIV positining and competition. It finishes up by having a brief discussion of the near-term road map.[more...]
IBM's XIV - Release 1
Here is a picture of IBM's exciting new XIV Storage System gleaned from talking to several sources. It is in three parts.[more...]
Is Green Storage a Dead End?
The SCSI Trade Association website has run an article entitled 'The Data Center's Green Direction is a Dead End' by Steve Denegri. It argues that the storage industry is effectively in denial and we need more energy, not less, for the health of our industry.[more...]
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Tunnelling ahead and then the land of giants
Confusing Hitachi GST areal density reports