EMC V-Max FAST: Coming in December … And 2010!
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Everything, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 17. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
EMC’s Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) was one of the most welcome annoucements made during the Symmetrix V-Max introduction. It would be a significant modernization of EMC’s Symmetrix line, and would be one of the first unique features of the Symmetrix V-Max line. But many, including me, were disappointed to learn in May that FAST [...]
Is Deduplication Ready for Prime Time?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 25. Sep, 2008 | View Comments
Deduplication is here for backup, but it is not yet ready for prime time in primary storage applications
