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Last week, Rickatron and I had the privilege of having Dr Garth Gibson, the co-inventor of RAID technology, on the Deep Dive podcast.
To say that Garth is a legend of the technology world is an understatement. Continued…
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Posted in Infosmack Deep Dive, NFS, Podcasts, SSD, Storage, Sub-LUN.
– December 22, 2011
I got pretty excited about SCSI Express the other week when I was at HP Discover in Vienna.
Well…. while there I had a quick Twitter exchange with Scott Lowe and Amnon Izhar about fabrics. This is another topic that gets the old juices flowing.
Posted in HP, I/O Virtualisation, Networking, Servers, Virtualisation, vmware.
– December 8, 2011
I’ve a keen interest in SSD, especially SSD based arrays. So I was pretty damn excited when at last weeks HP Discover event in Vienna I saw would could well be the future of SSD and SSD arrays, and it’s cool, really cool…….
– December 2, 2011
Disclaimer: I’m a self confessed fan of the 3PAR architecture. I think its best and cleanest design of all of the enterprise class storage arrays on the market. But I admit that architecture isn’t everything, service, support, cost etc all play a part in the wider solution.
Anyway, now that that is out of the way…. It’s old news that HP recently announced a major refresh of it’s 3PAR line, the P10000 or 3PAR V-Class. I despise HP’s naming conventions so I will call it V-Class. Continued…
– September 16, 2011
One of the things that bugs me on product launch days is the lack of decent technical info. Sure, there’s always a ton of high level marketing bumph and press releases, but who cares about stuff like that!
With that in mind, the Infosmack Deep Dive team have worked extremely hard to put together 1 hour and 15 minutes of no nonsense deep dive podcasting with some of the most recognised experts on the topics. We’ve done our best to cut through the crap and deliver technical content that you will find hard to find anywhere else.
If you want to know the craic with vSphere 5, this is the best place to find it…
In the show we cover what we feel are the hottest topics, and we spend time on them. Topics such as -
Joining us on the show this week we have some of most recognised professionals and experts on the topics -
Frank Denneman – Consultant Architect at VMware
Duncan Epping – Principal Architect at VMware
It’s fair to say that Duncan and Frank wrote the bible on VMware HA, DRS and Clustering. There first book VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive is honestly one of the best tech books I own. And I’ve ordered my copy of their new book – VMware vSphere 5 Clustering Technical Deepdive.
Michael Heffernan – Chief Technologist at HDS. Heff is responsible for HDS integration with hypervisor products and has some deep hooks in to VMware.
Add to the above, Rick Vanover and myself and we have a team of people doing our absolute best to give the information that you want!
I hope you enjoy the show and learn something. I did.
Listen to the show via the player below, or visit Infosmackpodcasts.com
If you enjoy the show, we have plenty more planned and plenty more already on the shelf an waiting to be listened to. Go see for yourself at Infosmackpodcasts.com.
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Posted in HDS/Hitachi, Podcasts, Storage, Virtualisation, vmware.
– July 12, 2011
Even if you’re not a podcast fan, I encourage you to hear me out on this.
The short and skinny of this is that I've started doing Deep Dive podcasts for Infosmack. And the whole point of them is to be interesting and useful to technical junkies like me. So if you’re like me at all, you will want to read this.
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Posted in Infosmack Deep Dive, Podcasts, Servers.
– June 23, 2011
While recently in Las Vegas for HP Discover 2011, I had a really interesting conversation with the guys at the HP P9500 booth. For those, like me, who despise the HP naming convention, The P9500 is the latest and greatest in what used to be the XP product line – you know the high end storage array that HP OEM and apparently joint-develop with Hitachi Ltd. of Japan.
As you might expect, the HP guys were top notch engineers, the type I could spend all day talking to. While we were chatting, they were obviously passionate about the involvement HP engineers and architects in the design of the XP/P9500 (HDS VSP). However, they also threw out some shots at EMC. And not wanting to simply swallow what they feed me, I thought I’d open up the debate on here in case anybody has any opinions…..
Posted in EMC, HDS/Hitachi, HP, Storage, Sub-LUN, VSP.
– June 18, 2011
I was collared by Chris M Evans (http://thestoragearchitect.com) for a quick 10 minute podcast to share my thoughts about some of the announcements being made at the opening press conference at HP Discover 2011.
This is a ~10 minute off the cuff audio podcast hosted on Chris’s website – Click here to jump to Chris’s site where you can listen to the podcast.
Posted in HP, Podcasts, Storage.
– June 9, 2011
Yesterday I mentioned that I came to HP Discover in Las Vegas to see if the drive and energy that HP are displaying in the Networking world was filtering through to their storage game.
With this in mind I’ve put myself about as much as possible, including gate crashing David Scott’s (SVP of HP Storage) lunch table and firing every question I could think of at him…
– June 8, 2011
**UPDATED with questions around what HP has to do to up its game. Questions in blue.
This week I’m in Vegas for HP’s premier showcase event.
Why have I bothered to travel half way around the world in coach class, messed up my body clock and had my luggage go missing……?
Posted in HP, Networking, Servers, Storage.
– June 6, 2011
