What we know. With the glitz of EMC World 2013 as a backdrop, EMC announced ViPR (Storage Virtualization Platform Re-imagined) otherwise known through rumors as Project Bourne. EMC calls ViPR Software Defined Storage but drawing parallel lines between this and … Continued

T RecoverPoint is a solution consisting of software and software that runs on an appliance or as a virtual appliance that provides data protection for EMC and limited third party storage systems. The RecoverPoint line provides data replication and protection … Continued

There have been a lot of performance results demonstrating the performance of SSDs. But how much of this information is verifiable and comparable among the vendors? Most, if not all, SSS manufacturers and vendors have performance (IOPS) and throughput (MB/sec) … Continued

The EMC Data Domain system is a deduplication system that is used for backup, compliance archiving, and long-term storage.  There are a wide range of EMC Data Domain models to cover the spectrum from remote office, mid-sized organizations and large … Continued

The HP XP P9500 Disk Array is based on an OEM of the HDS Virtual Storage Platform.  The XP P9500 is the high-end enterprise offering from HP that is capable of both mainframe and open system attachment.  Changes over the … Continued

The IBM FlashSystem solid state storage systems are a family of all solid state technology systems with the latest models being the 810 and 820.  The FlashSystem storage systems come from the IBM acquisition of Texas Memory Systems in 2012.  … Continued

Analysis of EMC’s VPLEX Virtualized Storage product

The EMC VPLEX is a network based, virtualized storage product designed create high availability storage between datacenters and provide the ability to move applications and data between storage environments. VPLEX leverages EMC’s common hardware design now employed in the VNX … Continued

This paper discusses the relationship between data protection, tiering and archiving and provides guidance for planning the storage strategy

Virtualization has become widely accepted in today’s enterprise datacenter, from consolidating thousands of desktops to mission critical Tier 1 applications in server virtualization.  One rapidly growing area for server virtualization is running critical Oracle database applications on VMware® vSphere® virtual … Continued