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2.028: not so fast, hitachi & hp - 22 days ago
Today's post comes verbatim from one of EMC's respected Technical Business Consultants, Jerry Zeisler. Jerry recently posted this analysis of misleading claims that Hitachi and HP are making that they already deliver what EMC's FAST is... Topics: competitive insights, PA, tiered storage

2.027: scale-out for virtual servers! - 30 days ago
Earlier this week, Hu Yoshida wrote a blog post challenging the viability of scale-out storage architectures as a platform for virtual server compute platforms (such as VMware). I can't sit on the sidelines and let that post go unanswered. Hu is... Topics: competitive insights, inside symmetrix, new technology

2.026: what's in a name – ds8700 - 31 days ago
Back in April, Dave Graham had a little fun with V-Max and a couple of other products that share the same name. I got a good chuckle from his post at the time, so I thought I might recreate his idea in support (!) of today's DS8700 announcement by... Topics: announcements, competitive insights

2.025: r.i.p. ds8300 - 45 days ago
The pain and agony is finally over. After nearly 3 years of denial, we now have proof-positive that the IBM DS8300 has been unceremoniously removed from life support. I've been told of numerous prospects whose IBM account teams vehemently denied the.. Topics: announcements, competitive insights

2.024: stuck in the middle with hu - 58 days ago
You've got to admit that the lyrics of the Stealer's Wheel hit have an uncanny resonance with the FCoE misinformation being promoted by you-know-Hu. I hereby refer my readership to Storagezilla's latest post on FCoE. technorati tags: FCoE,FUD Topics: competitive insights, new technology


