Anytime we have a product release or when a nascent market starts to become more mainstream, the result is massive amounts of confusion for most customers, and with good reason — vendor marketing goes into overdrive, competitive documents fly around… Read More ›
storage
The realities of Enterprise Storage Sales
At 30,000ft in the air over the holiday weekend, and with no wifi, one’s mind tends to wander a bit. And thus I spent some time thinking about the current happenings in the storage market. Things like: the recent VNX2… Read More ›
XtremIO Hardware/Software Overview & Architecture Deepdive
Introducing XtremIO XtremIO is EMC’s foray into the all flash array market. It is a ground up array design built exclusively for flash. I’ll start by giving an overview of the product, its features, and then do a deep dive… Read More ›
A primer on flash and a look into the challenges of designing an all flash array
It is no secret that flash is changing the storage landscape dramatically and while we are in the beginning stages of all flash arrays becoming common in the market place, customer interest in the technology is ramping up at an… Read More ›
A perspective on the Cisco / Whiptail Acquisition
Cisco has acquired (or a least, announced the “intent to acquire” at the time of this writing) a “storage company”, Whiptail. There has been speculation that Cisco would enter the storage market through acquisition for years, just as there has… Read More ›
VNX2: What’s really in it for customers?
With the VNX2 marketing event (Speed to Lead) dust settling, customers are now asking “whats in it for me”. Although the MCx re-write is nothing short of phenomenal from an engineering perspective, the reality is that the majority of customers… Read More ›
Recoverpoint 4.0 design considerations with vRPA (virtual RPA)
With the release of Recoverpoint 4.0, one of the most popular enhancements is the option to deploy the solution using virtual RPAs. Previous to Recoverpoint 4.0, the only option was to use physical appliances. We are now able to run… Read More ›
