Recent press reports about a bidding war for 3PAR bring into focus the expanding need for enterprise class data storage subsystems.  What exactly is enterprise storage? Defining enterprise storage is frought with problems but I will take a shot.  Enterprise class data storage has: Enhanced reliability, high availability and serviceability – meaning it hardly ever [...]

HDS announced support today for their thin provisioning (called Dynamic Provisioning) feature to be available in their mid-range storage subsystem family the AMS. Expanding the subsystems that support Thin provisioning can only help the customer in the long run. It’s not clear whether you can add dynamic provisioning to an already in place AMS subsystem [...]

This chart was included in our last months newsletter and shows relative costs of subsystem storage as well as subsystems performance on two axis SPC-1 IO operations per second and measured Least Response Time. Having the spreadsheet, I can easily tell which bubble is which subsystem but have yet to figure out an easy way [...]