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Hulk a.k.a. Infiniflex 12000 a.k.a. EMC Atmos Hardware.

Posted by bmottram in Wikibon on June 8, 2009


Just in case there are still some folks out there interested in hardware I thought an update to the Hulk saga might be of interest.

At the recent EMC World event in Orlando I managed to view the somewhat neutered successor of what was originally planned to be a highly dense storage array with the “jack or better” features normally expected in a functional enterprise array.

It was initially exposed to public scrutiny in November 2008 as the the Infiniflex 12000 but that label has apparently been assigned to the product archives with the current moniker being the neutral term, Atmos Hardware.

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3PAR shows the human side of business.

Posted by bmottram in Wikibon on April 28, 2009


In today’s uncomfortable economic climate it is a welcome relief to read that folks still have the inclination to extend a helping hand. Red Nose Day is a nationwide fundraising event organized by Comic Relief every two years in the UK. This year the event raised over $80M which will go a long way to help many disadvantaged folks.


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Some high level highlights of today’s Symmetrix V-Max announcement.

Posted by bmottram in Wikibon on April 14, 2009


EMC announced their latest 3rd generation Symmetrix architecture today the labeled the Virtual Matrix Architecture. The announcement was kicked off by Tucci who positioned the event as both the introduction of a new architecture as well and the introduction of the first V-Max product. Donatelli then proceeded to give a bit more detail. The following are the highlights I captured during his presentation.

  • Symmetrix was introduced 18 years ago, this is the 3rd generation architecture.
  • The intelligence and the compute resources are contained in a module called the Symmetrix V-Max Engine. Multiple engines can be matrix together with capacity resources in a scale-out architecture.
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Curtis Preston on Performance Comparison of Deduped Disk Vendors

Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on March 18, 2009


Ah! Curtis throws jet fuel on the de-dup performance conflagration. Good for him for putting a stake in the ground.  Comments are priceless

http://www.backupcentral.com/content/view/229/47/

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Is Fusion-I/O Flashier than EMC SSD?

Posted by David Floyer in Wikibon on March 10, 2009


When you read the Fusion-I/O Specs, they have an access time of 50 microseconds, and 95,000 IOPS for the 160GB SLC ioDrive; that’s over 100 times faster than a traditional disk drive. Look at EMC’s assessment of the potential of flash and you see a more sober assessment of 10-30 times faster. So is Fusion-I/O a much better product and set to dominate the market?

When you look in detail at the spec of the Zeus IOPS 3.5 inch SSD from STEC which is used in the EMC storage arrays the difference between the two technology’s are minimal. Clearly the difference in performance comes from the overhead of running the SSD in a storage array. Is using a disk-drive form factor for storage a wrong decision?

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