Posts by Michael Duke

The E-type could do 150MPH, downhill, with a tailwind, on a good day, with a half full tank, and a 90lb driver.

I always wondered why Bond never drove a Jensen Interceptor.

The DL560 is a reused name, there was a DL580 G4 time frame DL560 but the G5, G6 and G7 releases did not get one due to thermal limitations on the 6500 and 7500 series CPU's.

Now that the thermal envelope of the new E5-4600 CPU's again supports a 2U, 4 Socket machine HP are producing one again.

It is a loophole in New Zealand law, the law as written only relates to physical items as it was written back before digital transmission of information was considered likely.

Yes the law needs an update to cover digital assets but that has not been done as I understand it (from local MSM coverage so probably is not 100% accurate or in any way complete)

How many customers with USP-V / XP24000 or VSP/P9500 actually virtualise external storage for extended periods (e.g. longer than migrration)?

The reason I ask is IBM's view of this is less than 10% of USP-V customers actually use the virtualisation capabilities of the box and I would like some vendor FUD free info if any exists.

So I Found

Casino Royale (twice)

For Your Eyes Only

The Living Daylights

License to Kill

Quantum of Solace

Skyfall

On the outside edge are:

Live and let *FLASH* die

Thunder Bowl as Thunderball

I agree with several posters above, you do not buy VMAX and fill it with NL-SAS disks. If you want a large content store and you are an EMC customer then Isilon is the right solution.

These boxes will move with a 3/4 tier architecture (SSD, 15K SFF SAS, 10K SFF SAS, 7.2K NL-SAS), multiple engines and massive redundancy, THAT is why you buy VMAX.

This play is mainly as I see it to fight against HP/3Par in the service provider space, where 3Par has the loins share of the big guys doing XaaS (See the VMAX SP details the other day) and as a growth platform for existing DMX/VMAX customers.

Shocked and stunned I am that a modern all flash array beat the pants off of HP's Lowest spec rotating Fibre Channel array that is 7-8 years old in technology (Basically a repackaged EVA4100).

What's next a VMAX 40K beating a 4 node P4000 G2 array?

Nice article, shame about some of the comments

This was more about the un-launched music publishing service than Megaupload as a file sharing site.

Unified

Why would HDS build a fully unified box like the VNX when they can just throw an HNAS / BlueArc gateway in front for the file access layer.

So a fully multi-protocol block device with sub-lun tiering for Block customers. Add a pair of HNAS nodes for NAS/Unifed customers.

You get the traditionally high performance of the HDS mid-range systems with best in class File capabilities from the BlueArc technology in the HNAS units. From a management perspective it is no worse than Celerra was pre-VNX and lets face it the HDS management interface has never been their strength. :)

Could be an Asian market name for what the Aussie teams are calling vComplete or what a local NZ distributor is calling vCube.

Basically scaled down vBlocks with EMC Storage, Cisco C200 Servers, Cisco networking and VMware Essentials+ software.

10-100 VM's with varying levels of capacity and availability.

Nice and on to the ball there, these boxes have been available for months. The x3620 has been available since at least May 2011 and the x3630 launched in Aug/Sep.

Well that's fine and dandy but will there be a version available online with JUST the UV copy at a significant price reduction?

I do not want the DVD/Blu-Ray disc but the online delivery would be great.

I am liking it even though the history is a little slow.

I would say that this is because they are not confident of winning the spat with Oracle.

No they are claiming 1TB from the Tegra3 / GPU based rack @ 4GB per Tegra3.

Even that is high though considering the nVidia site says that the Tegra3 only supports 2GB of memory per chip, unless there is a "HPC Version" of Tegra3 that supports more memory.

Auto-tiering

Chris

The IBM Easy Tier is capable of varying the chunk size anywhere between 16MB and 1GB.

HP/3Par Adaptive Optimization uses 128MB blocks.

EMC FAST VP uses 1GB blocks on VNX/Clariion/Celerra but uses smaller chunks on the VMAX I think.

Having used auto-tiering arrays I can say that while there maybe "Hot" data that should not be on fast storage, in general having auto-tiering is better than not having it at all.

Not sure about that....

If that was the play why bring out the Unified Gateway for the Storwize V7000 this week?

That is not a product that was produced in the few weeks between HDS buying BlueArc and now, also BlueArc is closer to a High Performance SONAS competitor than N Series really.

Just does not stack up for me.

Zero Clients

If you are using VMware View for the server end Samsung do a nice 24" LCD with an integrated Teradici Zero Client.

Plug Ethernet, USB Keyboard and USB Mouse into the monitor and you have a client.

Not a big surprise.....

A 4 year old child with a pack of crayons has more graphics horsepower than the current Atoms.

The GMA950 struggles with 2D rendering and its 3D performance hardly counts with anything more demanding than a browser or basic flash content.

Working out the power

So if we take the 220MW and run an average PUE of 1.25 or 1.2 you get between 176 and 183MW of IT load.

With 900,000 servers @ 150ish Watts you have approx 135MW, the extra 40-48MW could easily be Networking and Storage for those 900,000 servers.

I have worked out the car equivalent of the VMAXe

Its like the new Rolls Royce mini, the badge and all the elements of the bigger more expensive array without the really useful bits :)

Would make a good pairing with the new mini IBM Z Series I guess.

Nice unbiased reporting there.... Ohhh wait....

So an ISP should have to bear the cost of investigating if a rights holder is correct in their accusation that someone is stealing from them is your position is it?

Should the department that builds the road also enforce the speed limit at their cost while fines go to the police department?

What's next ISP's should be responsible for collecting on bad debts because the invoices were e-mailed via the Internet connection they provide?

Of course there is an enforcement cost and the rights holder should pay it until the case is proved and then the guilty party will pay.

If the media industry had a business model that was based in the 21st century then a lot of this problem would go away IMHO. But better to not react to the market but sue the people who are showing you that there is a gap to be filled.

HP and Tape

HP have OEM's all of their tape solutions in the last few years.

This is being marketed as the ESL G3 library by the looks of it to replace the ESL E-Series.

Hmmmmmm.......

I wonder what First Mobile (Vodafone's #1 Reseller in NZ) will think of the 1 mobile brand?

Performance

@Storage_Person Who says they have to be the same CPU's. What if there were multiple engines on a fast interconnect (HyperTransport/QPI type links) with a crossbar architecture?

Then you would be able to run the infrastructure modules directly on the platform with even some Tier-1 applications tuned to run there as well.

The VMAX could become a Tier-1 application stack in a (2/3) rack(s), a step beyond a vBlock in reality.

It has some real possibilities for applications like Greenplum or Tier-1 ERP type systems.

Kindle user here

If you have a DRM free ePub book then there are simple tools out there for a convert to Mobi pocket and then you can read it on you Kindle HW.

I read the same books on 3 devices, my Kindle HW (long sessions), my Laptop (Lunchtime at work) and my Blackberry (Sitting in a shop waiting for food or the wife clothes shopping). The page sync feature is great and I would hate to not have it available. Turn on the WiFi on the Kindle when I pick it up for 2 mins and again just before I finish reading and I am up to date everywhere with no real impact on battery life.

Would not trade the Kindle platform for anything.

IP v4 Address Space

I know that HP ended up with at least two /8's (Their own and Compaq's, probably another from DEC as well).

@McWeasels

http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/index.php

Probably....

I would assume so.

The MSA2324 is FC only at this point though, an iSCSI version would be VERY welcome.