Posts Tagged Virtualization
Twitter, Google and Asimov
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on November 9th, 2009
Can Entropy be Reversed?
Isaac Asimov, one of the greatest science fiction writers of all time, wrote a short story entitled “The Last Question” in 1956. It begins:
The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way …
EMC announces multiple Clariion enhancements virtualization, replication and drive spin down.
EMC announced today several enhancements to their Clariion product line ranging from optimizing the Clariion CX4 virtualized experience, to increased connectivity and scale in the virtual environment to the introduction of an energy efficient spin down feature.
This announcement details a number of innovations that raises the competitive bar for EMC’s midrange competitors particularly in the virtualized storage space which will no doubt inject energy into this platform. Guess the close relationship with VMware does have tangible advantages. I appreciated the toggling feature of RecoverPoint as innovative and offers a neat solution to demand spikes.
NetApp paints a positive picture at their recent analyst meeting.
Earlier this month I had the pleasure of attending the NetApp annual analyst meeting. This was the first I had attended and was well worth the investment. It was very well organized and orchestrated and my congratulations go out to Kris Newton and the team for a job well done.
The initial main tent session on the first day was focus on delivering a snapshot of company performance with Dan Warmenhoven (Chairman and CEO) kicking the session off followed by Tom Georgens (COO) and the rest of the senior executive team. Some of the key points delivered were:
It’s not working…it’s networking!
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 28th, 2009
One of the many things I learned from my sales mentor Jeffrey Gitomer is that if your industry is having an event and there will be more than 100 high profile butts in the seats, then your butt better be there too with an elevator pitch, a stack of business cards and some great ideas– everybody loves ideas right?
Well, last December I got a call from Greg Duplessie explaining to me that he had this idea for a networking event called, get this – The Business Development Networking Event. Needless to say, I didn’t have to ask what the purpose of the conference was if you know what I mean.
V-Maxed out? Take a Deep Breath and Sharpen the Pencils.
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on April 15th, 2009
For weeks the brain trust at Wikibon and I have been dissecting EMC’s V-Max announcement and we still have a ways to go. Our technical guys want to go even deeper and we need to put together a good roadmap to help clients go from where they are today to this new vision of the virtual data center– if that’s where they really want to go.
Why Wouldn’t Customers Want to Migrate?
Why aren’t more VMware storage arrays virtualized?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on March 18th, 2009
Yesterday, the Wikibon community heard from Cal State U East Bay’s Rich Avila. He, like other guests on Wikibon, including BT’s Michael Crader, have cited the benefits of combining server and storage virtualization. Yet numerous customers we speak with don’t virtualize storage arrays under VMware.
Industry data from IDC and Forrester over the past few years clearly shows EMC dominates in virtualized server environments as the backend storage platform of choice. The data ranges from 40% to close to 50% market share. Clearly these EMC arrays are not sitting behind Invista so one can only assume the capacity of these arrays is not virtualized. Folks like 3PAR of course would say that this is a missed opportunity– once you try a fully virtualized platform under VMware you’ll see the advantages and won’t go back.
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