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EMC Acquires Archer, Integration Next
EMC Acquires Archer
The latest acquisition of Archer Technologies fills a gap in EMCs solution ecosystem with a best-in-class GRC software platform. With the Archer acquisition, and the development of an integration layer across EMC products, EMC creates the opportunity to speak more definitively about its capability to provide GRC solutions for core IT assets and operations and across the enterprise. The acquisition also provides a competitive play for EMC against other infrastructure technology providers including Oracle, with its GRC Manager, Microsoft with GRC Solution Accelerators and Sharepoint, CA, with its own GRC Manager, and others interested in their piece of the still-developing GRC marketplace.
Why Microsoft’s Head is up its DAS
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on December 31st, 2009
I’ve been doing a bunch of research on cloud-based email lately. It started when I was speaking with a number of Wikibon members about what they’re doing with Exchange and whether Exchange 2010 is changing the way they think about deploying storage. The Exchange team in Redmond has been pushing DAS harder than I’ve ever seen. Microsoft is telling customers that it has dramatically reduced the IO load from Exchange 2003, which is true.Microsoft is now pulling out all the stops. It’s telling clients that I spoke with to think about maintenance expiring on Exchange 2003 (I think you can still buy an extended service plan through 2014 if you give up your third child) and that SAN is not a recommended configuration for 2010. Microsoft is telling customers to worry about complexity and SAN can be a single point of failure. The logic put forth is that if I lose a DAS device I only lose part of my storage whereas if my SAN goes out…all my data is inaccessible. Interesting logic I thought.
Predictions 2010
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on December 18th, 2009
Vellante: More Credible than Carnac?
Year end predictions are always so benign–I hate them. “Security will continue to be a barrier to cloud adoption; or Virtualization demand will be strong next year.” Riveting…I’ve never done year end predictions before so I’m probably not going to be very good at it. But everyone’s asking me to do some and I promised my wife I wouldn’t be wishy washy.
The BDEvent: I’ll be there– will you?
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on December 9th, 2009
It's not working...it's networking
Greg Duplessie contacted me just about a year ago to tell me about an idea he had. He said he was starting an event that put executives in touch with each other for one purpose: Networking. No booths. No nonsense. Very focused. Just business development. I told him: “I’m in…what can Wikibon do to help?”
As the saying goes: ‘It’s not working, it’s networking.’ And, if there’s an event in my industry where there will be a bunch of smart and connected people that understand what’s happening, what’s getting funded, who is moving and shaking—I want to be there.
Copan may be Dead but MAID isn’t
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on December 8th, 2009
What's the Hurry?
Does Copan’s demise portend the death of MAID? Marc Farley thinks MAID is toast and recently wrote:
I suspect MAID storage will quickly become an afterthought now, except for a small number of customers and applications that will keep the technology on life support. The problem with MAID is that there aren’t enough applications for selectively-spinning disks. Selectively spinning disk drives are more expensive than tape for archiving and are more problematic than standard disk systems for backup. That leaves applications such as video on demand, which is not a large enough market to float a serious startup these days. Thin provisioning for primary storage and dedupe for backup have become the technologies of choice for customers looking to increase the efficiency of storage.
The Dark Side of Security…by Art Coviello
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on December 4th, 2009
Could the Bad Guys Collapse the Internet?
Every time I talk to Art Coviello, President of RSA, I get depressed, scared and hopeful. I received a memo today from RSA which was Art’s yearend review and 2010 look ahead. Here are some excerpts.
From the Desk of Art Coviello
Subject: Security in 2009 and a look ahead
Why Flash is a Threat and Opportunity for Array Vendors
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on November 25th, 2009
In the last twenty years we’ve witnessed a steady migration of storage function from the host CPU to the array controller. Storage services including replication, copy services, data migration, data protection and other storage management capabilities have ended up as solutions sold by array vendors and have created a multi-billion dollar industry. It made sense. Lacking a way to store peristent data close to the CPU, on the processor side of the channel, architects chose to use storage networks as the persistent storage alternative of choice. They realized the penalty of performing I/O to external disk was offset by the benefits from sharing persistent storage. Array vendors have also made tremendous strides in performance by using intelligent caching and other sophisticated algorithms and techniques to speed response times and throughput. External storage networks have become the dominant deployment model for the vast majority of mission critical applications.
The World According to Joe Tucci
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on November 15th, 2009
Cloud Rush
I’ve met, debated and interacted with countless CEO’s in my days. Gates was in a world alone, Gerstner was ultra button-down and board room impressive, Olsen was honest and avuncular, McNealy was fun, smart and intense, Ellison is funnier, smarter and even more intense, Ruettgers was focused, Egan was street smart and fearless.
Shugart was my favorite because he was outrageous, touchy and brilliant. He wore short sleeve Hawaiian shirts and said things like — as Nick Allen reminded me the other day — “cash is more important than your mother.”
Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FcoE) Status Update
Posted by Nick Allen in Wikibon on November 12th, 2009
Widely seen as the next generation in Layer 2 network infrastructure, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is a relatively new industry effort to combine the lossless features of Fibre Channel (FC) with the ubiquity of Ethernet. Combined with the new 10 Gbit Ethernet, it also promises something close to fibre channel speeds and the opportunity to converge FC and Ethernet networks, allowing organizations to simplify their networking infrastructure. Because it can support both FC and Ethernet traffic over a single physical infrastructure, it supports convergence of storage and network traffic over a single set of cables, switches, and adapters, eliminating the need for maintaining two physical networks, energy consumption and heat generation as well as overall cost and complexity. Specifically, storage management on FCoE has the same look and feel as management on traditional FC interfaces. On the Ethernet side, FCoE introduces 10 Gbit lossless Ethernet, the next generation in this technology, providing higher data transfer rates with more security against packet loss than previous versions. Overall, this promises to be a win all around for the network infrastructure.
8 Reasons to Pay Attention to XIV
Posted by David Vellante in Wikibon on November 11th, 2009
Look Out World...Here Comes XIV!
IBM yesterday announced a number of enhancements to its XIV storage platform. You can read about what IBM announced in some detail here from Chris Mellor and here from Tony Pearson.
When IBM announced its acquisition of XIV in late 2007, the Wikibon Peer Incite Meeting on the topic was one of the most well-attended at that point in our history. The reasons were simple:
- XIV is Moshe’s company; and Moshe is a God in the storage business;
- IBM is a potential sleeping giant in storage.
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