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• Confusion over storage consolidation — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

  

  Published on Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  Storage consolidation seems to be a simple concept. If you reduce the number of storage systems, you benefit from fewer devices to manage, less space required, and less power/cooling demands. Yet there is confusion over exactly what the term storage consolidation refers to. The confusion comes from some vendor messaging and what IT storage professionals ...continue reading

  Tags: capacity, solid state, storage optimization, tiered storage

• HDS: Hitachi Unified Storage Product Analysis

  

  Published on Monday, May 14th, 2012 in New Research

  The Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS) is the follow-on generation to the Adaptable Modular (AMS) for mid-tier enterprise storage. For download and full product description please click here...continue reading

  Tags: HDS, Hitachi, HUS, Unified

• Advent of modern storage — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

  

  Published on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  Storage systems are undergoing important changes. New systems are becoming available that are both sophisticated and make storage “simple.” Simple is mainly a euphemism for automating many complicated tasks that administrators had to deal with before, but there’s a lot more to this than just automation of tasks. There are modern architectures where the underlying ...continue reading

  Tags: architecture, NAND flash, SSD, thin provisioning

• Storage product rollouts are more spread out these days — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

  

  Published on Monday, April 30th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  Last week two major storage vendors made significant system announcements. Hitachi Data Systems rolled out its Hitachi Unified Storage (HUS)  that has block and file support and is aimed at the mid-tier market. NetApp unveiled Dynamic Disk Pooling for the E-Series platforms. Dynamic Disk Pooling is a new storage pooling implementation enabling faster drive rebuilds ...continue reading

  Tags: block and file, storage announcements, system announcements

• Why ‘big data’ is here to stay — Data-driven Blog by John Webster

  

  Published on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  Eight years ago, a friend and I were researching a book we would later call “Inescapable Data – Harnessing the Power of Convergence.” We were after an understanding of what kinds of new information one could produce by blending data of different types and from different sources — GPS data, combined with RFID, combined with ...continue reading

  Tags: analytics, Big Data, big data analytics

• HDS: Building a Storage Environment for Super-Efficiency, New Research

  

  Published on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 in New Research

  In this whitepaper, John Webster enumerates 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. For download and full product description please click here...continue reading

  Tags: HDS, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, unified storage

• HDS: Hitachi’s Approach to Storage Capacity Efficiency, New Research

  

  Published on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 in New Research

  This report examines and details the Hitachi approach to delivering storage capacity efficiency via its USP V and VSP platforms. In doing so, it will highlight how Hitachi looks at the overall economics of storage by reducing relevant operating expenses which they address with the characteristics of their storage systems and software. For document download ...continue reading

  Tags: HDS, HUS

• The slow adoption of new storage technology- WHY? — blog by Camberley Bates

  

  Published on Friday, April 20th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  Over the last few months during our education courses and conferences, one topic kept coming up – the conservative nature of Storage Architects and Administrators (no – I am not talking Limbaugh or politics). Storage, in comparison to other technologies, seems to move slower than a snail on a cold California day. There seems to ...continue reading

  Tags: Storage adoption, storage architecture, storage buying decisions, storage initiatives, storage management

• EMC RecoverPoint Product Analysis, New Research

  

  Published on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in New Research

  EMC RecoverPoint is a solution consisting of software and an appliance that provides data protection for EMC and limited third party storage systems. For download and full product description click here...continue reading

  Tags: EMC, EMC RecoverPoint, New Research, RecoverPoint

• NAB shows storage plays a big role in media/entertainment — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

  

  Published on Thursday, April 19th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference in Las Vegas this week drew a large number of storage vendors vying for the growing media and entertainment storage market. I’ve attended this conference the last five years, and seen more storage vendors every year. The storage vendors who go to NAB include those well-known in the ...continue reading

  Tags: broadcast, media/entertainment, NAB