Over at Burke HQ , I see that he's a little put out by a few questioning articles after EMCs 1Q broadcasts. In his latest post titled "Lions and Tigers and Bears" I can only but say "oh my!" Its unlike BarryB to tee himself up for such an obvious retort and to use his words not mine, let me explain....   [Continue Reading]


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I thought after the 4.3.0 release I'd have a bit more spare time to post more often, however I'm working on a couple of interesting projects that have really taken off over the last few months and I'm once again flat out, not to mention being asked to start benchmarking things already waiting to be...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  emc hds usp svc dmx invista ibm

The "modular monolith" has arrived. Oh how the EMC spin doctors must have jumped for joy when they realised the next version of the almost 20 year old Symmetrix family, the DMX-5 could also mean DMX-V in roman numerals. Better still lets try and jazz it up furter, how about DMX V-"Max". Oh how...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  dmx invista svc virtualization storage emc

So before Mr Burke, Chuck or the zilla get in there with the excuses let me have a guess at what's coming : They deliberately mis-configured it Its not a true comparison Its not a real life workload Its all about the number of drives ad infinitum... I am of course talking about the latest...   [Continue Reading]


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I'm in the middle of another take on the - Why Virtualize? story - looking at it from a subtly different angle - more of that later this week hopefully. But I have to quickly delve a little bit deeper into the concept of effective Tiering. Flash based disks have been a tantalizing prospect up until...   [Continue Reading]


Tags:  svc ssd dmx disk storage virtualization tiering ds8000

It seems a common thread in technology blogs to post some predictions for the coming year. However, as I'm not an analyst and don't profess to understand the entire storage industry, I thought I'd keep to a brief history of 2008 as I saw it - obviously with an IBM and SVC slant on things. This isn't...   [Continue Reading]


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