Detailed comparison of feature functionality between vendor products. Covers High End, Mid Range and Entry Level

  The EMC VNX series of storage systems are a family of systems that provides unified file and block storage and replace the CLARiiON and Celerra product lines. The systems provide a wide set of connectivity options for block access … Continued

The FAS6200 Series is the high-end storage system family offered by NetApp.  The V6200 series are the NAS gateways that parallel the FAS6200 systems.  NetApp provides families or series of products targeted with different performance and capacities to meet customer requirements in … Continued

Questions to be asked regarding Storage Resource Management

The HP X9000 Network Storage System implements a parallel cluster file system with three configurations to achieve a high-end, highly scalable NAS system.  The HP X9000 represents a scale-out NAS system where the capacity and performance can be scaled with … Continued

The Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) is the follow-on generation to the Adaptable Modular (AMS) for mid-tier enterprise storage.  In addition to advancements made to the existing AMS system hardware and software features, the HUS includes NAS capability … Continued

A evaluation guide covering all of enterprise storage. Details what types of storage are best suited to storing specific types of data, how to create a storage strategy and architecture. Covers primary, secondary and data protection.

The Dell Compellent FS8600 is a scale-out NAS system providing high performance NFS and CIFS access.  It uses paired controllers called nodes and Compellent storage arrays and can scale with additional controller pairs (currently limited to four pairs). Details include: … Continued

Randy Kerns explores Solid State Technology and its many variations of use in the storage industry. He covers the different approaches to utilize solid state technology and the value of the solutions in different environments.

The IBM SONAS system is the offered by IBM to meet large-scale file storage requirements.  The key capability with SONAS is the very large scaling of up to 21.6 PB and the ability to create a global namespace for access … Continued

EMC Isilon Product Brief

The HP X9000 Network Storage System implements a parallel cluster file system with three configurations to achieve a high-end, highly scalable NAS system.  The HP X9000 represents a scale-out NAS system where the capacity and performance can be scaled with … Continued

Product Analysis of IBM’s SONAS. Updated April 2011 with performance SPECsfs2008 information.

This document provides an overview and analysis of the major features and functions of the NetApp FAS3100 and V3100 storage systems.

Analysis of the EMC Celerra product family of storage systems providing both file-based and block storage.

In this paper,  John Webster enumerate the attributes of a storage environment designed for sustainable, high velocity growth, and reviews Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) as a platform for sustainable storage and data management.

In this test analysis, Evaluator Group assesses Starboard Storage Systems’ AC72 system; The evaluation focuses on several aspects with a particular focus on performance. The validation consisted of quantitative test efforts, which sought to characterize measurable attributes, along with a … Continued

Questions to be asked regarding Network Attached Storage

The BlueArc Titan 3000 series (OEM’d by HDS) is the current line of Titan offerings and covers the high-performance enterprise market with a system that scales to 4PB of storage capacity and provides advanced features and functionality.

It almost goes without saying that storage administrators continue to grapple with managing ever increasing volumes of data. On average, Evaluator Group sees a 50% annual growth rate in the amount of data stored among its user clients. Certainly one … Continued

Updated 4/2011 with IBM and EMC. Review of approaches to Automated Tiering by multiple vendors.

Discussion on the difference and planning considerations for bulk versus archive storage types

On June 7, 2010, Permabit of Cambridge, MA announced the availability of a new data deduplication software developers kit named Albireo that can be embedded in primary, secondary, backup and archival storage systems by OEM storage vendors.

On Jan 26, 2010 NetApp, Cisco and VMware announced their approach to the integration of data center infrastructure. These 3 vendors will collaborate to offer pretested and validated designs, along with cooperative support.

Russ Fellows examines some of the technologies and standards that are available to solve Cloud Computing Security issues, and how companies can design an architecture that is scalable and secure.

Announcement Summary of Sun 7000 Unified Storage

IBM announced an update to their N5000 with the new N6000 series

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Product analysis of NetApp’s midrange FAS3000 multi-protocol series products

Announcement Summary of EMC Rainfinity File Management Appliance

Announcement Summary of EMC Celerra NS20 – July 16, 2007

Product Analysis of IBM N- 5000 Series

Analysis of HP’s NAS Announcement

Announcement Summary of HDS’s High Performance NAS Platform

Announcement Summary of NetApp’s Topio Acquisition 7, Nov. 2006

Analysis of the Sun Microsystems StorageTek 5320 NAS Announcement

EMC purchases Rainfinity, Maranti

Sun Microsystems NAS 5000 Analysis

Announcement Analysis of Spinnaker acquisition

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