Four times a year, IDC releases their market share analysis for the storage market.  Even though most vendors don't talk much about it, just about every vendor subscribes to their service.  Much time is spent in conference rooms debating and discussing the numbers and their implicati...

Today, EMC announced several major enhancements for the Celerra platform.  Taken individually, they're interesting. But taken together, I think this announcement shows just how far NAS technology has evolved in the past few years.  If you haven't been paying attention to what the...

Much has been made online of Cisco's rumored plans to enter new data center markets. It's easy to dismiss all of this as just one large enterprise IT vendor poaching on another's turf. But, to many of us, there's much more here than initially meets the eye ... The Facts Now, I can...

Sorry to be late on this post, but I thought it worth some commentary as to why this particular standard should be tracked by IT infrastructure professionals everywhere. Now, I always tell people to put aside their "standard skepticism" when discussing industry standards, and I always have...

Mary Shelly's classic gothic horror novel was about a monster, assembled from human parts, brought to life by the magic of a lighting bolt.  Frankenstorage appears to be a new twist on this idea -- storage arrays, assembled from various parts from multiple vendors, brought to life by the m...

No big ideas in this post ... No, this one is just various odds and ends I've been meaning to write about, but just haven't gotten around to it. Sorry for the bouncy nature of the post ... Meet Kathrin Winkler Yes, EMC is getting very serious about sustainability -- not only our products, bu...

Welcome back everyone -- to 2009.  It doesn't promise to be an easy year, does it?  If I had to pick one key theme to focus on, it'd be "accelerated change" -- things are going to start happening much faster than before.  Tough economic conditions have a way of do...

Well, my travel calendar is definitely getting a bit lighter this time of the year -- that's a good thing. Had a few moments to dig back through all the stuff I missed, and put together a post or two on some of the flotsam I found interesting. Warning: this might be a time-waster of a post -- yo...

Over the weekend, a few internal notes were being circulated about testing storage array performance.  There's an interesting pattern that we're seeing with these evaluations, and we'd like to offer a few suggestions to save you time and frustration. This storage performance testin...

Late last night - dozing with the TV still on - a rather strange ad came over the cable. Maybe you've seen it? They were advertising "PowerGard" with a devilishly simply pitch: just plug it in to the wall, and save 10% on your power bill. That's just too damn easy, I thought. So I ...