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EMC, Isilon, and CSX possibilities..
As you’ve no doubt heard, EMC has completed the tender offer to acquire Isilon (www.isilon.com) for a Cajillion dollars (actually ~$2 Billion) and some people are asking why. From where I sit, there...
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Using Cloud as a SAN Tier?
I came across this press release today from a company that I wasn’t familiar with and immediately wanted more information. Cirtas Systems has announced support for Atmos-based clouds, including...
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EMC’s New VNX Unified Storage Systems
Today, EMC announced the new VNX and VNXe Unified Storage platforms that merge the functionality of, and replaces, EMC’s popular Clariion and Celerra products. VNX is faster, more scalable, more...
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Auto-Tiering, Cloud Storage, and Risk-Free Thin Pools
Some customers are afraid of thin provisioning… Practically every week I have discussions with customers about leveraging thin provisioning to reduce their storage costs and just as often the customer...
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Building Blocks – Part I: Build your own #PrivateCloud
Part 1 -> The Building Block Approach As 2011 wraps up and I have a little time at home over the holidays, I’ve been reflecting on some of the customer projects I’ve worked on over the past year....
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Building Blocks – Part II: The Building Block Approach to the #PrivateCloud
Build your own Private Cloud <- Part 2 -> How many Building Blocks Since server virtualization abstracts the physical hardware from the operating systems and applications, essential for Cloud...
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Building Blocks – Part III: How Many Building Blocks does your #PrivateCloud...
The Building Block Approach <- Part 3 -> Sizing your Building Block The key to sizing Building Blocks is to calculate the ratio between the compute and storage metrics. First you need to take a...
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Building Blocks – Part IV: Sizing Your #PrivateCloud Building Blocks
How many Building Blocks? <- Part 4 -> Does your Building Block need a Fabric? Now that we know we’ll be deploying about 562 VM’s per Building Block we can use the other metrics to determine the...
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Building Blocks – Part V: Does your #PrivateCloud building block need a fabric?
Sizing your Building Block <- Part 5 -> I’m too small for Building Blocks You may have noticed in the last installment that I did not include any FibreChannel switches in the example BOM. There...
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Building Blocks – Part VI: But my #PrivateCloud is too small (or too big) for...
Does your Building Block need a Fabric? <- Part 6 Okay, so this is all well and good, but you have been reading these posts and thinking that your environment is nowhere near the size of my example...
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