PowerPath To The Virtual People
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Virtual Storage on 22. Apr, 2009 | View Comments
Hiding in the shadow of the huge VMware vSphere 4 announcement was a very interesting introduction by EMC: PowerPath/VE. As I mentioned in my post on storage changes in vSphere 4, PowerPath/VE plugs into the new pluggable storage architecture (PSA) found in vSphere 4 versions of ESX and takes over the decision-making and heavy-lifting tasks related to communicating with storage systems.D
Symantec’s Thin API Is A Step In The Right Direction
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 16. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Symantec announced that their widely-used Veritas Storage Foundation software (more commonly known as Veritas Volume Manager and filesystem) will now include thin provisioning, migration, and a new API which allows it to directly communicate with thin-capable storage arrays. This is a smart step, certainly, and ought to be useful, but storage managers should still try [...]
Volume Management: Virtualizing Host Storage
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Personal on 21. Feb, 2008 | View Comments
I’ve been feverishly preparing for my upcoming TechTarget seminar series focused on storage virtualization, so I thought it might be interesting to post a few topics from the talk here on the blog. If you’ll be in Washington DC on March 4, or Durham NC on March 6 and are interested in the world of [...]
Storage Management Integrated with Server Virtualization (Where’s EMC?)
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Virtual Storage on 26. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
XenSource just announced that they’ll embed Symantec-née-Veritas‘ server-side storage virtualization software into their server virtualization offering. This is great news, since server virtualization has boiling for more than a year now with precious little storage integration to be seen. Although XenSource is a distant second in the world of server virtualization, they’re [...]
Storage from behind the great wall
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage on 18. Jul, 2007 | View Comments
Yes, folks, China is rising in storage industry. A while back, my good friend Marc Staimer suggested that Huawei might become the next great storage vendor. Well, Huawei’s joint venture with 3Com has now become 3Com’s unit in China, H3C. That’s right, Bob Metcalfe’s old company bought Huawei out of the venture [...]
