with nigel poulton
Shortly after the recent VMware vSphere 4.1 and VAAI announcements, I had an epiphany. It dawned on me that tight integration with VMware, as well as being seen to be part of the VMware inner circle is now absolutely critical for storage vendors.
NOTE: If you're not sure, VAAI is an important part of the VMware vStorage API enabling offloads to the storage hardware for certain functions. VAAI stands for vStorage API for Array Integration.)
Posted in Storage.
– July 23, 2010
Does anybody really care if Data Center kit looks cool and sexy? Do things like blue neon lights make a difference to sales?
While eating out recently with a group of top industry techies* in Tokyo Japan, we had a short light-hearted discussed of the above. There was a definite difference of opinion; some of the people involved felt it made absolutely no difference at all, whereas others (including me)
Posted in Networking, Servers, Storage.
– July 22, 2010
I always thought I knew a thing or two about Data Centre technologies, in particular Hitachi/HDS (i’ve worked closely with them on and off over the past 6-7 years). So what was my surprise today when literally stumble across a boatload of Hitachi networking kit that I had absolutely no idea existed!
Posted in Networking, Servers, Storage.
– July 22, 2010
I’m using this post to offer my two penny’s worth to a subject raised by Elias Khnaser in a recent post over at InformationWeek titled “Open Letter to Jack Domme, CEO, Hitachi Data Systems”.
In his article Eli talks about the need for HDS to do a better job of selling itself.
Posted in Storage.
– June 30, 2010
I recently attended a blogger event at HDS corporate HQ in Santa Clara, CA.
This was a landmark even for HDS PR and social media, and hopefully marks significant improvement in the way that HDS engage with the community and their customers.
While at the event I had the privilege of joining with Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen) and Devang Panchigar (@storagenerve) interviewing Hu Yoshida – Chief Technology Officer at HDS – on the latest episode of the legendary Infosmack Podcast.
On the podcast we talk to Hu about his career, HDS vision on unified compute (vertical stacks) and storage architectures. It is well worth a listen, even if I do say so myself, as Hu is an industry legend.
I also highly recommend the Infosmack podcast (even the episodes that don’t feature me) for all the latest industry gossip and tech roundup.
In the near future I’ll be posting on what I learned while at the event.
Posted in Uncategorized.
– June 21, 2010
Nobody ever seems to talk about IBM storage, its just boring right?
The above comment was arguably true, until IBM acquired the XIV Nextra product just over two years ago. This acquisition seems to have Continued…
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– March 19, 2010
On the topic of I/O Virtualisation, we look into a product that takes I/O adapters (NIC and HBA) out of physical servers and places them into a Top of Rack switch and extends PCIe out of the server chassis to the ToR switch. The notion of extending PCIe out of the server and plumbing a rack with PCIe is very interesting. Continued…
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Posted in I/O Virtualisation, Podcasts.
– March 3, 2010
Today I was joined by the following as a panel member on the Wikibon FCoE Fact vs Fiction Peer Incite call – Continued…
– February 2, 2010
In this inaugural episode of the Technical Deep Dive Podcast I'm joined by Greg Ferro from Etherealmind.com and Camden Ford from Xsigo Systems. Cam talks to us about Xsigo Systems and the technologies and solutions they offer. Continued…
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Posted in FCoE, I/O Virtualisation, Networking, Podcasts, Storage.
– January 30, 2010
A while ago I posted an article demystifying the relationship between HP and Hitachi – in particular the Engineering Agreement that HP have in relation to the StorageWorks XP line of arrays. So…. as a follow-on I thought I’d do something similar, this time on the relationship between HDS and Hitachi.
To help with this I spoke with Roberto Basilio at HDS. Roberto heads up Product Management for Platforms and knows a thing or two about how HDS fits into the larger Hitachi organisation. Oh and he knows plenty about the HDS product line-up too!
Posted in Storage.
– January 19, 2010
RT @storagenerve: RT @StorageNerve: New Post: Storage Federation (HDS and EMC ) http://bit.ly/a7Zwt4, any thoughts on this subject @gsenderov do you guys have any presence in the UK for pitching Hydrastor?
@nigelpoulton Nigel you may want to get in touch with @gsenderov no EU rep but if ur company has US presence there is a way so I'm told?!?!
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